Unfortunately, this was state-sanctioned and wide-spread in North Carolina and Virginia.
There were appeals all the way to the SCOTUS, and they ENDORSED it.
Black’s book “ America’s War Against the Weak” chronicles it.
Wagglebee, I think I am missing part of the title. Do you know it?
I don’t remember the name of the book. I’ve seen copies of the “release forms” that the victims signed. The victims were primarily poor and uneducated, they were offered free medical care. In return they signed lengthy release forms in legalize that they were not expected to understand and buried inside was the fact that they were being sterilized.
Of course this is still not as sickening as the Tuskegee Syphilis Program where black men with syphilis were “tracked” for several decades to see how the syphilis destroyed their brains and bodies. The kicker was that the program was begun AFTER antibiotics were being used to successfully treat syphilis.
To quote Chief Justice Holmes: Three generations of idiots is enough!
I personally do not want to pay taxes to support idiots on welfare but feel free to add your name to the “Tax Me More” fund. If you and your family are welfare queens, do not expect sympathy from me - I think welfare recipients should be required to have Norplant as a condition of receiving taxpayer money.