Indigenous sterilization victims fear inaction as feds eye examination
OTTAWA — “Do you want them cut or burned?”
Deb Ironbow says she was light-headed, powerless and strapped to an operating table when a doctor asked her how he should proceed with her tubal ligation.
“I said, ‘I don’t know what am I supposed to do?’” she said. “‘Just burn.’”
More than two decades later, Ironbow wants to know why she was asked about a “life-destroying act” when she was about to be cut open for a caesarean section — an experience she describes like an out-of-body occurrence.