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Eugenics is the science of improving the population by controlled breeding for desirable inherited characteristics. The horrible effects of Canada’s eugenics movement, which spanned from 1885 to 1945, still resound through Canadian courts to this day. The eugenics movement spawned the horrific practices of government-enforced, involuntary sterilization programs such as the Sexual Sterilization Act passed in Alberta. Alberta was one of two provinces (B.C. 1933), to pass such legislation.
The Sexual Sterilization Act, which was introduced in 1928 in Alberta, was based on the principals of eugenics, meaning "good birth". In the 1920’s, it was believed that if only those people with desirable genes bore children, the human race as a whole would improve. The Alberta government and pressure groups including the United Farm Women of Alberta sought to limit the reproduction of many kinds of people, including visible minorities and the "feeble-minded". They associated much of the rise of crime, poverty, alcoholism and other vices to these people.
Regardless of the reasons in support of sterilization at the time, restricting an individual’s ability to repro
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The public trustee of the province (P. Crockett says that McIntyre later recommended that Dr. The judge ruled that it could not be said that Crockett was a negligent, incompetent caregiver. “Committee of person” empowers a person to make personal and medical decisions for an incompetent adult, but the Supreme Court ruled that this does not include non-therapeutic sterilization. After being released
from the Michener Centre in 1965, she wanted to start a family. Michael Oxley, a urologist, consider a bilateral orchidectomy. He also admitted that he proceeded with the surgery without obtaining options from an endocrinologist or a psychiatrist to determine the cause of the patient’s symptoms or whether the procedure was appropriate or effective in Crockett’s son’s case. and tried to rescind her rights as her son’s “committee of person,” which she obtained in 1995 after her son turned 18. This attempt was unsuccessful because the court exonerated her son and her handling of him. In 1959, Leilani was told that her appendix would have to be removed.
Leilani Muir was awarded $740 000 for wrongful sterilization and wrongful confinement. No one wants to see the horrors of the eugenics movement, but what about those individual families with special circumstances like Sandra Crockett and her son.
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