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N.C. Forced Sterilization Victims Voice Grief, Pain
FoxNews.com ^ | 6/23/2011

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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To: surroundedbyblue; rabidralph

It is difficult to believe that there might be anyone here that would support that kind of thing. Unfortunately, we seem to be beset with trolls lately.


201 posted on 06/23/2011 3:37:50 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: little jeremiah
I think he was a sleeper troll - probably been zotted many times under a variety of user names.  
 
Lamh Foistenach Abu!

Posting from my BlackBerry mobile HQ.
202 posted on 06/23/2011 3:38:44 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: surroundedbyblue; rabidralph; Lazamataz
rabidralph, having followed this thread this afternoon, I think surroundedbyblue's premise been supported by a few of the replies and zots. As for you, surroundedbyblue, you'll have to forgive some of us old timers who post before reading the thread... on this count, I'm guiltier than most, except maybe Lazamataz, who is the current champion.

<rodney king> Can't we just all get along?</rodney king>
203 posted on 06/23/2011 3:42:15 PM PDT by glock rocks (Crouch as low as possible to the floor and cover your head with your hands.)
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To: 50mm; I Buried My Guns; wagglebee

Well, that was a disgusting bit of tripe from I Buried My Guns. Elitist god that he is...


204 posted on 06/23/2011 3:42:31 PM PDT by bcsco
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To: DJ MacWoW

There are people that filled with hate and prejudice. Apparently some think they’re conservative. Or maybe they know they aren’t conservative but pretend, and FR is just a place to spew their poison.


205 posted on 06/23/2011 3:42:59 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: little jeremiah; DJ MacWoW; wagglebee; BykrBayb

There’s too much anger and antagonism for me to believe that they’re conservatives. I may be wrong, but imho, some of them are trolls and a surprising number appear to be sleeper trolls.


206 posted on 06/23/2011 3:47:22 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: little jeremiah
Great tagline, Little Jeremiah! C.S. Lewis is one of the great soldiers of Christianity - but I'm sure you knew that! 
 
Lamh Foistenach Abu!

Posting from my BlackBerry mobile HQ.
207 posted on 06/23/2011 4:01:14 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: ConorMacNessa

C.S.Lewis was a wise and faithful man. I wish I had more of his books, need to get more.


208 posted on 06/23/2011 5:01:33 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: trisham; DJ MacWoW; wagglebee; BykrBayb

People like him are proof that real conservative and therefore Constitutional principles must be founded upon morality and virtue, which are naturally founded upon the moral absolutes in religious principles.

That’s why Libertarianism is so sick, and of course all leftist ideologies. People who think that religion and morality can be surgically removed from conservative goals and principles are dead wrong. What’s left is gross materialism - profit, utility, monetary gain - which of course are not evil, but become evil when not bounded by morality. And even this gross materialism quickly slips downward into “The big dog makes the rules”.


209 posted on 06/23/2011 5:07:17 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: TheOldLady

It’s trash pickup day, and his cooling carcass is on the curb with a trash tag tied on the big toe!


210 posted on 06/23/2011 6:01:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: little jeremiah
“The big dog makes the rules”

Zooming out a tad, nationally, that's what's happend... we have become a democracy. Our representatives are one with the big dawgs. Time for a tidy-bowl clean out on the six hundred or so who determine our fate as a nation. 2012 may well be the last chance. If Mugabe Soetoro's handlers get their way, any inkling or our republic being founded on divine principle will be lost to the history rewritten by the victors.

Keeping the candle of truth burning through the winds of change... tough job. We cannot fail.

211 posted on 06/23/2011 6:02:26 PM PDT by glock rocks (Crouch as low as possible to the floor and cover your head with your hands.)
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To: glock rocks

yeesh.

“any inkling or” should be “any inkling of”


212 posted on 06/23/2011 6:04:44 PM PDT by glock rocks (Crouch as low as possible to the floor and cover your head with your hands.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Hi Civ! You’re late to the party, but fashionably! Your dapper presence is most welcome.


213 posted on 06/23/2011 6:19:37 PM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list.)
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To: Rebelbase
That is a tragedy.
214 posted on 06/23/2011 6:29:45 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: chuckles

I wish there was a “Like” button for that post. It was beautiful.


215 posted on 06/23/2011 8:08:46 PM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (CAIN/WEST 2012 - Because two bros are better than THE 0NE!)
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To: surroundedbyblue

“It ends when the entitlements end, not when we devalue human life.

I pity people like you who just don’t get it. Sick.”

You’re suggesting it is an “either-or” situation, which it isn’t, then attacking the other poster. Right now, the welfare system REWARDS irresponsible women who breed like rabbits with no possibility of supporting their children and refuse to name the fathers who should be providing support, but who frequently benefit from the same welfare payout themselves. It’s time to cut off the brood sows, either by cutting benefits or having them be VOLUNTARILY sterilized. You claim this “devalues human life”; I claim you don’t know what you’re talking about. The welfare/ghetto lifestyle is devaluating to all concerned, frequently for several generations!

JC


216 posted on 06/23/2011 8:13:16 PM PDT by cracker45
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To: Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; albertp; Alexander Rubin; Allosaurs_r_us; amchugh; ...



Libertarian ping! Click here to get added or here to be removed or post a message here!

217 posted on 06/23/2011 8:32:52 PM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
On one hand you are welcome. On the other I wish you didn't have to learn about it.

Sometimes I don't like my fellow humans very much.

218 posted on 06/23/2011 9:19:11 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Yesterday I meditated, today I seek balance. That was Zen, this is Tao.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
On one hand you are welcome. On the other I wish you didn't have to learn about it.

Sometimes I don't like my fellow humans very much.

Misanthropy . . . it never disappoints.

219 posted on 06/23/2011 9:29:59 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu.)
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To: I Buried My Guns

You know, I have never believed in Evolution, but you have just changed my mind with this one posting. Only the child of an ape could be so devoid of human compassion.


220 posted on 06/23/2011 9:48:10 PM PDT by tuckrdout ( A fool vents all his feelings, but a wise man holds them back. Prov.29:11)
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