Penelope
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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
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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