‘Deeply disturbed’: Health committee calls on feds to investigate forced sterilization The woman, referred to as S.A.T., is one of 16 women who shared their experiences about their sterilizations in the report by a Senate committee on human rights.The report, released Thursday, says coerced sterilization of Indigenous women is not a matter of the past and still happens in Canada today.The committee is urging the federal government to further investigate the “heinous” practice by compiling data and come up with solutions to bring it to an end.It says the precise number of Indigenous women subjected to forced or coerced sterilization in Canada is unclear.It also argues that the practice hurts other marginalized and vulnerable groups in the.