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Posted on 06/23/2011 7:17:26 AM PDT by surroundedbyblue
There is nothing the state of North Carolina can do, Elaine Riddick says, to make up for forcing her to be sterilized when she was 14 years old.
"They cut me open like I was a hog," the woman who now lives in Atlanta said at a Wednesday hearing in Raleigh held by a panel working to determine compensation for thousands of victims of the state's defunct eugenics program. "My heart bleeds every single day. I'm crushed. What can they do for me?"
Riddick, 57, was one of 13 people who spoke at the meeting, and one of nearly 3,000 living victims of the program, which was shuttered in 1977, three years after the last sterilization was performed. The public hearing is part of a process unprecedented not just in North Carolina, but nationally. About a half dozen other states have joined North Carolina in apologizing for past eugenics programs, but none of the others have put together a plan to compensate victims of involuntary sterilization.
"It's hard for me to accept or understand or even try to figure out why these kinds of atrocious acts could be carried out in this country," said Gov. Beverly Perdue, who appointed the Eugenics Task Force that convened Wednesday's hearing.
Any plan that involves financial compensation will be a hard sell, though, in a year when the state budget includes deep cuts to numerous programs. The General Assembly passed the $19.7 billion spending plan over Perdue's veto. Bills in the legislature aimed at providing specific financial and medical compensation for victims have stalled.
"We've made some baby steps, but as we get closer to the big one, there's some pushback," said state Rep. Larry Womble, D-Forsyth, the lawmaker who's been most active on the issue.
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Hi Arrowhead1952!
They were only anti-abortion for the "right kind" of people. They were all for abortion of the "wrong kind" of people.
To question the Obama administration timing, motivation and manipulation of this issue is not to question the merits of this issue itself.
There have been many injustices by the government in the past and there still are. Some actions of this administration certainly qualify. Some injustices are eventually remedied because it is the right thing to do, but some are exploited for political advantage.
Anyone who believes this administration does anything that isn’t part of their political agenda hasn’t been paying attention.
And anyone who believes this administration does anything related to race that isn’t part of the political agenda and their racist wealth redistribution agenda really hasn’t been paying attention.
True :(
Back at’cha.
This one is true.
Oh, YEAH!!!
I’m very aware...So don’t force sterilization....kill the babies!!!
Perfectly stated. The true way to go about it, unfortunately the odds of that ever happening are slim to none, even when pigs fly.
I would like to educate myself by looking at those web sites.
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“My children are not an experiment, and I resent them losing their educational opportunities and being used as a tool to make people feel better about themselves “
Then do the responsible thing and provide for your own child’s education instead of letting the education system you so hate be the one to do it.
Oh damn, I wasted my reply on toast. It’s very rude not to let folks know you were removed from polite company.
Anything below Them, of course. But also of course it would not stop at people with measurably low IQs. Such lists of useless eaters and undesirables have a way of expanding longer and longer.
Too bad he couldn’t have gotten zotted several times.
Oh, maybe he has.
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