WGST 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sexual Sterilization Act Of Alberta, Leilani Muir, United Farm Workers

• School: Brock University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1F90
• Professor: Jenny Janke

Document Summary

Sexual sterilization act (1928): act provides for the forced sterilization of inmates in mental hospitals as well as extending to those deemed unfit to procreate . Unsafe abortion: a procedure for terminating an unwanted pregnancy wither by persons lacking necessary skills or in an environment lacking the minimal medical standards or both . Bill c-150: passed amendments to section 251 of the criminal code (including decriminalizing abortion, birth control, etc. ) Morgentaler decision (1988): the supreme court of canada strikes down canada"s abortion law as unconstitutional. Percentage of canadian hospitals that currently perform abortions: 17. 8% Issue of reproduction must be broadened it"s more than abortion and birth control. Politics of the body: right of people to control bodies within a variety of contexts; how our bodies are represented, used and the autonomy and agency we have to make our own decisions about our body.