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The Canadian criminal code is amended to allow contraception, sterilization, and abortion.

Date: 1969

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Hurley (2021) writes: "The change opened the door for an increasingly blurry line between autonomous (unforced) sterilisation and forced or coerced sterilisation. Behind closed hospital doors, Indigenous women were facing a genocide under the guise of medical care and 'family planning,' while on the streets first-wave feminists were attempting to reclaim their bodies."