A new bill that would explicitly criminalize forced or coerced sterilizations as aggravated assault punishable by up to 14 years in prison could inadvertently harm women, Canadian leaders in the field of women’s reproductive health are warning. While well-intentioned, the bill as now written could impact life-threatening emergencies and scare some doctors away from offering women voluntary, consensual permanent contraception, leaders of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) wrote in an op-ed published online this week at...