NC+Forced+Sterilization+-+Sarah


 * WRAL**

[|__http://www.wral.com/news/state/nccapitol/story/9761898/__]
 * **In North Carolina, between 1929 and 1975 African Americans were being sterilized. Some were told they were being sterilized a form of temporary birth control, but it was irreversible.**
 * **Our state made it easier than any other state to sterilize people by allowing doctors and social workers to pick out victims from anywhere, while in other states someone had to be jailed or institutionalized before they could be sterilized.**
 * **Roughly 85% of the people sterilized were women but some as young as 10.**
 * **NC is the only state that has set up a process to compensate victims. They are giving $20,000 to each person who was sterilized.**

[|__http://againsttheirwill.journalnow.com/__]
 * Winston- Salem Journal**
 * **Some of the victims were also blind or mentally retarded or just poor. This was not only being done to African Americans.**
 * **Some other reasons were mental disease or epilepsy.**
 * **In some cases sterilization was optional. The patient could choose between that or being cut off from welfare.**
 * **In 1959, our state senator pressed to sterilize all unwed mothers after their third child out of wedlock.**

http://rockcenter.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/07/8640744-victims-speak-out-about-north-carolina-sterilization-program-which-targeted-women-young-girls-and-blacks
 * Rock Center with Brian Williams**
 * **The NC program actually started out as a way to control welfare spending on poor white people, but later shifted focus to promiscuous women, young girls, and blacks.**
 * **One-third of these procedures were done to girls under the age of 18 and some girls were younger than nine.**


 * WRAL- Perdue asks Sterilization Victims to Come Forward**
 * **Governor Perdue is asking victims to come forward and receive payment for their loss.**
 * **She is making room for this compensation in her next budget on Monday**.
 * **The recommended amount for compensation right now is $50,000 per person.**

http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/10875008/