Tag Archives: sterilization
Victims Won’t Come Forward For a Reason
There’s an excellent op-ed in today’s Winston-Salem Journal about the state’s eugenics program. The op-ed encourages victims to come forward. Unless there’s going to be meaningful compensation that victims can count on, there’s little reason for most of the victims to come forward. Some victims may come forward to help illuminate what happened, and forContinue Reading
Yes, They Were Evil
A recent AP article about the NC’s forced sterilization program quotes Georgia State law professor, Paul Lombardo, as saying in regards to those who were part of the process to sterilize innocent people, “This wasn’t just a bunch of evil people running around. Many of them really wanted to alleviate suffering.” Let’s hope that isn’tContinue Reading
Margaret Sanger and Eugenics
By chance I was doing some additional research on eugenics and found this “defense” of Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood) and her association with eugenics. The following is from Planned Parenthood Affiliates of New Jersey: Although Sanger uniformly repudiated the racist exploitation of eugenics principles, she agreed with the “progressives” of her day whoContinue Reading