US sterilisation program tried to 'breed out' Black people, met UN 'genocide' definition: Study
WASHINGTON: A sterilization program that ran in the US state of North Carolina from 1929 to 1974 was explicitly designed to "breed out" black citizens and met the UN definition of genocide, a study said this week.
Almost 7,600 men, women and children as young as 10 were surgically sterilized under the program that was created to serve the "public good" by preventing people deemed "feebleminded" and others from becoming parents.
Most were coerced but some women who had no other means of birth control sought out sterilization by having themselves declared unfit mothers.
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"North Carolina's disproportionate use of eugenic sterilization on its black citizens was an act of genocide," said Darity.
https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2020/jul/25/us-sterilisation-program-tried-to-breed-out-black-people-met-un-genocide-definition-study-2174659.html
