XPost: alt.religion.scientology, de.soc.weltanschauung.scientology   
   From: Angela_member@newsguy.com   
      
   In article <1163385543.059224.83740@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, Barbara   
   Schwarz says...   
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   >   
   >Angela Gupta wrote:   
   >> From Macleansdotca [quote] Nine women with mental disabilities who were   
   >>sterilized at a psychiatric hospital in British Columbia will share a   
   $450,000   
   >> settlement reached with the provincial government.   
   >>The women were sterilized while they were patients at the Riverview   
   Psychiatric   
   >> Hospital in nearby Coquitlam between 1940 and 1968. British Columbia's   
   public   
   >> guardian said in a statement Wednesday that the settlements range between   
   >> $25,000 and $100,000, plus costs.   
   >>The case has been before the courts since 2001, when 18 lawsuits were filed   
   on   
   >> their behalf by the Public Guardian and Trustee of British Columbia. One of   
   >> those suits involved a man who had been sterilized at the hospital, formerly   
   >> known as Essondale Provincial Mental Hospital.   
   >> The plaintiffs, who are all elderly women, were sterilized as a form of   
   birth   
   >> control.   
   >>[Public Guardian and Trustee] Jay Chalke said about 200 women were   
   sterilized in   
   >> British Columbia.   
   >> At the time, the process was legal under the Sexual Sterilization Act of   
   1933   
   >> and its successor legislation, which was abolished in 1973.   
   >>The case was the first of its kind in B.C., although women sterilized in   
   Alberta   
   >>mental hospitals have successfully sued the Alberta government for   
   compensation.   
   >> Oppal said it is possible that more lawsuits could be filed.   
   >>The lawsuit in B.C. alleged the sterilizations were done without any   
   scientific   
   >> evidence supporting the belief that children of the patients would inherit   
   >>serious mental disabilities. It also alleged the sterilizations were a   
   violation   
   >> of each patient's sexual privacy and were considered an assault.   
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   >   
   >Good that she won. But I think she would have deserved a lot more.   
   >   
   >   
   >Barbara Schwarz   
      
   I totally agree.  They should have gotten much, much more.  Although, I don't   
   know how any amount of money could compensate these poor women for the   
   brutality   
   they suffered at the hands of psychiatrists.   
   Angela   
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