N.C. Approves Sterilization Compensation

Oooppsss... We're sorry we sterilized you against your will... it was just a slight Freudian slip into the Nazi way of thinking for a few decades, we really didnt mean to do it...



WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Survivors from among the thousands of North Carolina residents who were involuntarily sterilized by the state over five decades will be compensated in the form of heath care and education.


Gov. Mike Easley quietly approved a list of recommendations last month, including education benefits through the University of North Carolina and access to a health care fund.


Easley also approved a plan to help those who were sterilized negotiate the maze of medical records needed to confirm their stories.


The cost of the measures hasn't been determined.


Easley apologized in December for the actions of the Eugenics Board of North Carolina, which ordered sterilizations of about 7,600 people from 1929 through 1974.


Most of the victims were poor women who were often talked into sterilization by social workers. Inaccurate labels of "feeble-mindedness" were often used as justification based on eugenics, the movement to solve social problems by preventing the "unfit" from having children.

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health care and education for sterilization that ended in 1974????????


I'd be screaming lawsuit by now , bugger the health care.