North Carolina Sterilization Victims Compensation

There is some forward progress in the movement to provide compensation to people who were sterilized in North Carolina.  The LA Times' story is here and CNN's is here.  Here is the home page of the North Carolina Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation and their reports are here.

Comments

[Daniel S. Goldberg]

Al,

Although I am no historian of eugenics -- I am closer to actually "doing" disability history and am almost necessarily an interested outsider in the history of eugenics insofar as 20th c. disability history literally is albeit not reducible to the history of eugenics of the same time -- I am not sure yet how much forward progress this constitutes.

Of course, the fact that Our Fair State is even considering compensation for victims of involuntary sterilization is unique, but the way forward, so to speak, is not contingent on the recommendation of the gubernatorial Task Force. Rather, moving on leads through the much steeper road of the Legislature. They obviously have the final say on appropriations, and if they do in fact approve any compensation at all, I will be most impressed!

[Alfred Brophy]

Agreed on everything, Daniel. Still, I'm grateful for every ray of sunshine.