Compensation OKd Over Women’s Sterilizations
From Times Wire Reports
Survivors from among the thousands of people who were involuntarily sterilized by the state over five decades ago will be compensated in the form of heath care and education.
Gov. Mike Easley quietly approved a list of recommendations last month, including education benefits through the University of North Carolina and access to a health-care fund.
Easley apologized in December for the actions of the Eugenics Board of North Carolina, which ordered sterilizations of about 7,600 mostly poor women from 1929 through 1974.
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