Eugenics

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – A proposed budget agreement sets aside $10 million for one-time payments to North Carolina’s forced sterilization victims, but the final amount paid to each individual will depend on how many come forward. Under the terms of the $20.6 billion compromise budget unveiled by the Republican legislative majority on Sunday, each verified […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Victims of a decades-old forced sterilization program in North Carolina will have to wait on compensation because legislators did not include any money for them in a state budget deal, in part because Republican leaders could not agree on how to respond to the victims. North Carolina was the first state […]