Some of that work has already begun on the ground. The Survivors Circle for Reproductive Justice, I believe, is working on a template to be able to work with medical associations in an educational way for women so that people would not be sterilized in the first place. It would be about their own rights and about educating the doctors.
I've been working with the First Nations Health Authority on revising their consent procedures within their hospitals. A group of people have been working with hospitals to help them develop a culturally appropriate, trauma-informed consent that would be applicable and useful in obtaining proper indigenous consent.
There are people working on it. Once this bill is passed, I think it's going to provide a wonderful opportunity. Hopefully it will never have to be used, and the doctors and the institutions will be educated well enough that they will understand that it's not appropriate to not obtain proper consent before a tubal ligation or any type of sterilization.
