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To: surroundedbyblue
People as young as 10 in North Carolina were sterilized for not getting along with schoolmates, being promiscuous or running afoul of local social workers or doctors. The state's law, which allowed such professionals to refer people to the state Eugenics Board for sterilization, was more open-ended than similar statutes in other states, where people had to be jailed or institutionalized before they could be sterilized.

Is this an accurate assessment of the situation in NC when this happened? I am old enough to have learned that everything you read in the press is not "totally" accurate.

24 posted on 06/23/2011 7:54:33 AM 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: Texas Fossil

I would say you are correct.


33 posted on 06/23/2011 8:03:57 AM PDT by org.whodat
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To: Texas Fossil

This one is true.


147 posted on 06/23/2011 1:26:30 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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