North Carolina agrees to compensate sterilization victims for 45-year eugenics program

[anis]

[QUOTE]After a ten-year deliberation process, North Carolina is set to be the first state to offer monetary compensation to victims of government-sponsored sterilization.

Between 1929 and 1974, the state sterilized an estimated 7,600 people by choice, force or coercion under the authority of the North Carolina Eugenics Board program.

The North Carolina General Assembly in late July approved compensation for the remaining victims of the sterilization program. State Governor Pat McCrory signed into law the $10 million compensation package -- to be distributed among living victims -- as part of the state’s $20.6 billion budget shortly after the General Assembly’s vote. Verified victims will be issued a share by 2015.

The number of victims alive in 2013 is unknown. However, the state Center for Health Statistics estimates that 2,944 victims may be living as of 2010. Less than 200 people have come forward with sterilization claims, Charmaine Fuller-Cooper, former director of the North Carolina Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation, told CNN. [/QUOTE]

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[QUOTE]A 1950 pamphlet describing the benefits of North Carolina's sterilization program. (Photo from North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources)[/QUOTE]

[Jeep-Eep]

About goddam time.

[Bobie]

hahah what the fuck north carolina had a eugenics program in the 70s wtf

[Jeep-Eep]

[QUOTE=Bobie;41950235]hahah what the fuck north carolina had a eugenics program in the 70s wtf[/QUOTE]

Considering that the last forced eugenic sterilization in the states happened in 1981. And Sweden had one into the 1970ss as well.

Hell, the Albertans maintained such a program into the 1970s. Granted, it's the [i]Albertans[/i], but.... well.

[Lachz0r]

all i can say is, it's good they're trying to make up for it

[Bobie]

[QUOTE=Lachz0r;41950301]all i can say is, it's good they're trying to make up for it[/QUOTE]

i don't think forced sterilization is worth 10,000,000 distributed between 3000 people. its a pretty terrible amount considering what actually happened

[Sgt-NiallR]

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That's pretty fucking creepy; to know it's real.

[Erasus]

[QUOTE=Bobie;41950352]i don't think forced sterilization is worth 10,000,000 distributed between 3000 people. its a pretty terrible amount considering what actually happened[/QUOTE]
Yeah, it's around $3333 each.. It's not really that "great" at all. But it's something I suppose, and better late than never.