Along the way in the film, professors, legal scholars, and other people of interest are interviewed and offer their knowledge of specific eugenic topics.

She experienced a rough childhood as her mother often beat her and didn't provide her with regular meals.

[1] Leilani, not knowing at the time why she was placed in the centre, believed that she had been taken to an orphanage since her mother had told her that she had never wanted a girl.

However, she still was deemed a danger of transmitting mental defects to progeny and incapable of intelligent parenthood.

[1] On June 12, 1995, with the Honorable Madame Joanne B. Viet presiding, Leilani, sued the Alberta Government for wrongful sterilization and damages, with her lawyers Jon Faulds and Sandra Anderson.

[1] The Sterilization of Leilani Muir was produced by Graydon McCrea under the National Film Board of Canada in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1996.