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Barely 40 years ago, it wasn't uncommon for a single mother on welfare, or a
patient in a mental hospital in North Carolina, to be sterilized against
her will.
But North Carolina wasn't alone: More than half of states in the U.S. had
eugenics laws, some of which persisted into the 1970s.
North Carolina is now considering compensating its sterilization victims. A
state panel heard from some of them Wednesday. They were mostly poor and
uneducated - both black and white - and often just girls when it happened.
'They Cut Me Open Like I Was A Hog'
Elaine Riddick says she was sterilized at the age of 14. The state of North
Carolina said Riddick was promiscuous and didn't get along well with others.
"I couldn't get along well with others because I was hungry. I was cold. I
was a victim of rape," Riddick says.
Pregnant from that rape, Riddick gave birth to her only son in 1968. During
the C-section, doctors sterilized her. A consent form shows the "X" mark of
her illiterate grandmother. Riddick didn't know she'd been sterilized until
she was 19, married and ready to have more children. She's now 57 and shared
her story - through tears - at a hearing of state officials Wednesday in
Raleigh.
"I have to get out what the state of North Carolina did to me," Riddick says
. "They cut me open like I was a hog."
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