Unexplained terminated pregnancy contributed to Saskatchewan woman's sterility

A woman says the unexplained termination of her pregnancy at age 15 contributed to her sterility.
Morningstar Mercredi said that since learning about Indigenous women who were coerced into having tubal ligations in Saskatoon, she sees her own partial sterilization in her youth as part of a systemic negligence toward her as an Indigenous woman.
“I just don’t think I’m alone, unfortunately,” she said.
Mercredi was about six months pregnant in 1977 when she went to a Sa