Monetizing Misery My Two Fathers Greg Wyatt

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Virginia to Compensate Victims of Eugenic Sterilization

The State of Virginia has passed legislation that would offer financial compensation to victims of the state’s eugenic sterilization program, which forcibly sterilized over 8,000 Virginians deemed
“unfit” to reproduce from the 1920s through 1970s. Reports indicate that only 11 surviving victims have been identified, and will each receive a $25,000 compensation.
This makes Virginia the second state to address the crimes of forced sterilization through compensation. In 2012,
North Carolina announced similar plans to compensate surviving victims of forced sterilization. Payments began in 2014,
though the process has been riddled with red tape and loopholes that some say are preventing sterilization victims from receiving their proper compensation.

Virginia passed its Eugenic Sterilization Act in 1924,
alongside a “Racial Integrity Act” which made it “unlawful for any white person in [Virginia] to marry any [person] save a white person.”

Battles over the legality of the state’s sterilization law culminated in 1927, when the Supreme Court ruled eugenic sterilization constitutional in the infamous ruling in the case Buck v. Bell.
Eugenics sterilization laws proliferated after the ruling. Eventually over 30 states adopted compulsory sterilization bills motivated by eugenics.

Though the eugenics movement fell out of popular favor with the onset of World War II, Virginia’s sterilization act remained on the books until 1979.

In the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, the law was increasingly used to target Black women within the welfare system.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170513142204/https://apa.nyu.edu/hauntedfiles/category/sterilization/

Emma, Carrie, Vivian: How A Family Became A Test Case For Forced Sterilizations

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/17/695574984/emma-carrie-vivian-how-a-family-became-a-test-case-for-forced-sterilizations

VICTIMS OF VA. EUGENICS STERILIZATION LAW TO BE COMPENSATED
Victims of Virginia’s Forced Eugenical Sterilization Act will receive $25,000 from the General Assembly after a three-year battle to include compensation in the Virginia budget. Between 1927 to 1979,
Virginia sterilized about 8,000 people deemed unfit to reproduce for reasons such as mental illness, physical deformity or homelessness.
The appropriation makes Virginia the second state…

https://lifedynamics.com/victims-va-eugenics-sterilization-law-compensated/

In 1924, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Buck v. Bell, a case challenging Virginia’s eugenics sterilization law, a model law used by many other states to sterilize their people.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160512031419/https://lifedynamics.com/app/uploads/2015/03/VA-Eugenic-Sterilization-Law-Upheld.jpg

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