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babylonsister

(172,803 posts) Sat Feb 28, 2015, 01:47 PM Feb 2015

Virginia Pays Sterilization Victims

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/02/27/pay-out-to-eugenic-sterilization-victims.html?via=twitter_page

Virginia Pays Sterilization Victims

Victims who were involuntarily sterilized at one of six Virginia institutions won a major victory Thursday when the Virginia General Assembly agreed to set aside $400,000 to compensate them at $25,000 each. More than 7,000 people were sterilized against their will between 1924 and 1979 under the Virginia Eugenics Sterilization Act, a bogus movement aimed at improving the human race’s overall genetic structure by forcibly keeping “defective” people from reproducing. Only 11 victims are still alive, however; two have died in the past year.

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Virginia Pays Sterilization Victims (Original Post) babylonsister Feb 2015 OP

Carrie Buck (Buck v Bell) deserves a special apology. no_hypocrisy Feb 2015 #1

Whew daredtowork Feb 2015 #2

no_hypocrisy

(55,371 posts)

1. Carrie Buck (Buck v Bell) deserves a special apology.

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Sat Feb 28, 2015, 02:36 PM

Feb 2015

daredtowork

(3,732 posts)

2. Whew

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Sat Feb 28, 2015, 02:41 PM

Feb 2015

When I saw the headline, I thought Virginia was bringing sterilization back by paying people. Eugenics 2.0.

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