People are rightly horrified by this news out of Virginia that a doctor performed hysterectomies on women without their consent. But last century, forced involuntary sterilization was official state policy…
The N.C. Court of Appeals has affirmed earlier rulings against five people seeking compensation from the state because of forced sterilization. Each case was tied to the state eugenics program…
JLF’s Jon Guze offers background on North Carolina’s eugenics program — a horrific episode in North Carolina history. Readers who are new to this publication may be shocked to learn…
Readers who are new to this publication may be shocked to learn that between 1933 when the General Assembly created the state Eugenics Board, and 1977 when the Board was…
A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has ruled that the estates of three victims of the state’s eugenics program are not entitled to payments from North…
I’ve written previously about litigation that has delayed the closing of “a shameful chapter in North Carolina’s history.” As I explained, that chapter began in 1933 when the General Assembly…
The New Republic reviews an important new book by Thomas C. Leonard: Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics & American Economics in the Progressive Era. Among his revelations: The minimum wage was created to destroy…
From 1929 thru 1977 approximately 7,600 North Carolinians, men, women, whites and blacks were sterilized by their state government. The case to compensate those victims of forced sterilization has been…
House Speaker Thom Tillis, R-Mecklenburg, talking to the Wilmington Star-News: To me, the Republican Party is all about opposing government takings. I can’t imagine anything more demonstrative of an egregious…
In the latest Carolina Journal Online News Report, Barry Smith reports that a tax increase provision added by Democratic state Sen. Clark Jenkins could thwart a bill that would compensate…
Barry Smith reports for Carolina Journal Online about the progress of a bill to compensate victims of North Carolina’s 20th-century eugenics-based forced sterilization program.
If I was a believer in eugenics and the law no longer allowed me to force poor women to be sterilized, as it once did, what would be my second…