Panel makes final its recommendation to give $50,000 to each victim of N.C. sterilization program

[Judi Lynn]

Panel makes final its recommendation to give $50,000 to each victim of N.C. sterilization program
By: Associated Press | Winston-Salem Journal
Published: January 27, 2012 Updated: January 27, 2012 - 1:13 PM

RALEIGH The North Carolina panel responsible for figuring out how to compensate the victims of the state's decades-long forced sterilization program says survivors should get $50,000 each without delay.

The task force said in its final report issued today that it decided compensation should be limited to those 1,500 to 2,000 still alive in order that state lawmakers will approve the money this year. The payout amounting to as much as $100 million needs legislative approval.

The report says the task force feared that trying to compensate the families of the nearly 7,600 men and women sterilized by state order would mean money for no one.

North Carolina would be the first of the dozens of states that forcibly sterilized the "feeble-minded" and others during the 20th century to compensate victims.

http://www2.journalnow.com/news/2012/jan/27/panel-makes-final-its-recommendation-to-give-50000-ar-1863417/

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

Sterilized by North Carolina, she felt raped once more

[Politicalboi]

2. Quickly pay them now

$50,000 is cheap for this crime. And all the years they waited. All the appeals that were filed. All the years they lost without children. All for ONLY $50,000. A little less than a days pay for Mittens.

[LoisB]

3. $50,000 compensation

I would tell them to take that $50k and shove it. That's an insult!

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. A very good detailed short history of the issue can be found here:

http://extras.journalnow.com/againsttheirwill/main_front.html

the whole story of America's willing involvement in the long lasting Eugenics movement is not well known.
I wrote a paper on it while in college, otherwise would not have known about it either.

Good reading on this NPR page:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2011/06/01/136849387/found-in-the-archives-americas-unsettling-early-eugenics-movement