No context, but prejudice against indigenous people is not novel.

USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterilization_of_Native_Americ...

> restricted to only four of the many IHS facilities nationwide and examined only the years 1973 to 1976. The GAO study showed that 3,406 involuntary sterilizations were performed in these four IHS hospitals during this three-year period.

Most countries supported this practice until very recently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization

Based on a then standard idea of Eugenics.

Yeah, I'm with you. I'm really confused. Even the linked story from the first sentence, which I hoped would shed some light on why this is even happening, or what the legal status is or the history, has nothing.

You'd think if you were against this as a policy, you'd explain some of this history, which can't be good. But I guess these are tricky political issues to even talk about (which is part of the problem, IMHO).

Doing a little more research I found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization_in_Ca...

Although it seems like all the laws have been repealed in the 70s?