Eugenics Board of North Carolina (EBNC) , not repleaed till 2003

[Penelope]

No permission needed. I don't think any forced sterilization was done after 1974, still , not all that long ago. Now if you pro life people are going to say , but abortions, this was forced sterilization. We have a nasty history, and its time to admit it.
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“Why did it happen in North Carolina and not elsewhere?” asked Daniel Kevles, a professor of history at Yale University and the author of In the Name of Eugenics.

One reason was a group of Winston-Salem's elite who formed the Human Betterment League in 1947. Hosiery king James G. Hanes and Alice Shelton Gray, a trained nurse and another member of the local elite, joined forces with Dr. Clarence Gamble of Boston, the heir to the Procter & Gamble fortune. The group launched a massive publicity campaign in North Carolina to promote sterilization programs. Newspapers — including the Journal — bought into it, asked few hard questions, and paved the way for the eugenics board to expand its activities.

Lifting the Curtain On a Shameful Era

 

[Penelope]

From article:

The Winston-Salem Journal obtained and examined thousands of these documents. It found that:

• More than 2,000 people ages 18 and younger were sterilized in many questionable cases, including a10-year-old who was castrated. Children were sterilized over the objections of their parents, and the consent process was often a sham.
• The program had been racially balanced in the early years, but by the late 1960s more than 60 percent of those sterilized were black, and 99 percent were female.
• Doctors performed sterilizations without authorization and the eugenics board backdated approval. Forsyth County engaged in an illegal sterilization campaign beyond the state program.
• Major eugenics research at Wake Forest University was paid for by a patron whose long history of ties to science had a racial agenda that included a visit to a 1935 Nazi eugenics conference and extensive efforts to overturn key civil-rights legislation.

North Carolina's eugenics law, passed in 1929 and rewritten in 1933, allowed sterilizations for three reasons — epilepsy, sickness and feeblemindedness. But the board almost routinely violated the spirit, if not the letter, of the law by passing judgment on many other things, from promiscuity to homosexuality.

 

[Tank]

Sterilizing the Africans is not a bad idea

 

[TNHarley]

Eugenics (at least some form) will be the new trend in the future.

 

[Disir]

Buck v Bell has never been overturned.

 

[flewism]

The article is doesn't have many names of responsible parties, are they still alive? Do you believe that any living responsible parties should be allowed to continue living?
What was your goal in posting this article? information?, rage?, disgust?

Since this article is 15 years old, have you petitioned the Winston-Salem Journal or the writer Kevin Begos for additional information.

Or is this just to put-down the current resident of the state of Raleigh North Carolina or the American south in general.

 

[IsaacNewton]

No permission needed. I don't think any forced sterilization was done after 1974, still , not all that long ago. Now if you pro life people are going to say , but abortions, this was forced sterilization. We have a nasty history, and its time to admit it.
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“Why did it happen in North Carolina and not elsewhere?” asked Daniel Kevles, a professor of history at Yale University and the author of In the Name of Eugenics.

One reason was a group of Winston-Salem's elite who formed the Human Betterment League in 1947. Hosiery king James G. Hanes and Alice Shelton Gray, a trained nurse and another member of the local elite, joined forces with Dr. Clarence Gamble of Boston, the heir to the Procter & Gamble fortune. The group launched a massive publicity campaign in North Carolina to promote sterilization programs. Newspapers — including the Journal — bought into it, asked few hard questions, and paved the way for the eugenics board to expand its activities.

Lifting the Curtain On a Shameful Era

I rarely watch TV shows but I watched Chicago Med this week and it was about an older female patient that came in with here mid 50s daughter to the hospital for treatment. The daughter was sitting in the room as her mother was treated and the daughter had abdominal pains. They thought it might be her appendix but she said she had her appendix out at age 14 (somewhere in the early 70s). She also noted she never could have children. They took her and did x-rays or cat scans and her appendix was there but they discovered her tubes had been tied in an operation.

It came out that a judge had legally ordered the mother to have the daughter sterlized at 14 in whatever southern state they had lived in where this happened. She had never had her appendix out and her mother had lied all this time. For TV it was a pretty hard hitting show. Hard to believe this crap ever was legal but it was.