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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Oops - I misread your comment (obviously I would not make the grade!). Their own levels would State Secrets of course.
Whoever has the power draws the lines, it’s that simple.
Eugenics and the Left
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=16217
The Rules of the Great American Race Game
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=7067
War Against the Weak
http://www.waragainsttheweak.com/
This should get you started.
AND euthanized! Double plus!
email.
Yes, please leave your shoes on the porch though.
Shoes?
I’m surprised that you have been here as long as you have. This is a pro life site, not just the lives you approve of. You have placed yourself in some horrible company with your posts, Sanger and Adolph come to mind.
Forced sterilization is ok in your book? Don’t want these cretins drooling on your kids? I feel so sorry for you.
Thank you both.
*grabs mop* *cleans up fried troll guts*
I Buried My Guns - dead troll
‘Bout time you showed up. I got troll guts all over gunner’s porch. Don’t worry, I cleaned those up myself.
Hey! You did a great job. It’s sparkling clean in here.
And it’s my turn again next time. ;-)
Eeww. Was he upset?
It’s sparkling clean in here.
I had to use about 8 different cleaners for this one..
Was gunner upset? No, never. He’s very easy going.
Soft Scrub with bleach replaced three of my seven cleaners. It works great.
Soft Scrub with bleach replaced three of my seven cleaners.
I need to remember that. Btw, what do you think is the best way to get the smell out when cleaning up the really really really stinky ones?
That troll was particularly vile.
We just let it dry and blast it off with the compressor.
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