Were glad to see that N.C. lawmakers, back for their short session, got to work immediately on righting a wrong done to thousands of North Carolinians with the states eugenics program the longest-running such program in the nation. A bipartisan group in the N.C. House filed a bill Wednesday to compensate victims. Primary sponsors included Rep. Larry Womble, D-Forsyth, Speaker Thom Tillis, R-Mecklenburg, Rep. Earline Parmon, D-Forsyth, and House Majority Leader, Rep. Skip Stam, R-Wake. Rep. Martha Alexander, D-Mecklenburg, was a co-sponsor.

This action is long past due. It was shameful that the state conducted such a program. There were more than 7,600 victims of the program that ran from 1929 to 1974, including adults and children. Many were lied to about the operations; others were given explanations they were unable to understand. Currently, 132 individuals have been verified by the N.C. Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation, of which 118 (about 90 percent) are living.

The bill reflects the recommendations of the Governors Eugenics Compensation Task Force, which filed its final report in January. It establishes a $10 million fund and a lump-sum, tax-free payment of $50,000 for all eligible recipients. Claims would have to be filed by Dec. 31, 2015.

Additionally, the bill provides continued funding for the Sterilization Victims Foundation, which serves as a clearinghouse for verification requests and will be empowered to advocate on behalf of verified victims. If the bill is signed into law, the state would become the first in the country to give money to living victims of sterilization.

We commend Rep. Womble, who was an early and persistent supporter of compensation legislation. There are some folks who doubted that this day would finally come, he said. Its taken too long, but we now stand ready to open the door and financially acknowledge the suffering the state brought to so many.

Hes right. Wednesdays bill is a first step. By the end of this session this bill should be law, and sterilization victims will be on the way to getting their justified compensation.

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Yes, yes, to compensating N.C. sterilization victims

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) Victims of North Carolina’s decades-long forced sterilization program would receive $50,000 each under a bill filed Wednesday that would make the state the first to compensate people who lost their child-bearing abilities under the once-common practice.

“I am very elated at this milestone because it is a milestone,” said Rep. Larry Womble, D-Forsyth, who has led the fight for compensation for more than 10 years. “All the eyes of the world are on North Carolina as to what we’re going to do, finally. I feel very confident; I feel very hopeful; and I feel very positive that the legislators are going to do the right thing.”

Womble wasn’t at the Legislature Wednesday when the bill was filed because he’s at home in Winston-Salem, where he’s recovering from injuries suffered in a car wreck in December that killed another man. He said in a telephone interview that he’s especially pleased that the bill’s sponsors include Democrats, Republicans, blacks, white, men and women.

The bill’s House sponsors include Speaker Thom Tillis, which is unusual because the leader of the chamber doesn’t typically sponsor bills. The Republican said he would consider it a personal failure if eugenics compensation legislation didn’t pass this year. He said he’s wanted to do something for the victims of forced sterilization ever since he was first briefed on the issue four years ago.

“I’m somebody who likes to stake myself out and I want folks to know I have a personal interest in seeing us move forward,” Tillis said, adding the bill is “the right thing to do.”

The bill has bipartisan support. In addition to Tillis and Womble, sponsors include Democratic Rep. Earline Parmon of Forsyth and Rep. Paul Stam, R-Wake. Tillis said he believes there is consensus with the Republican-led Senate, where a bill hasn’t been filed yet. House members filed the bill on the first day of the session.

” … the General Assembly wishes to make restitution for injustices suffered and unreasonable hardships endured by the asexualization or sterilization of individuals at the direction of the state between 1933 and 1974 …,” the bill reads.

Gov. Beverly Perdue’s budget proposal last week included more than $10 million to give $50,000 in tax-free compensation to each living victim. Some of the funds would support other services of the North Carolina Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation.

“I am encouraged that legislators are working together in the best interests of citizens who were affected by this repugnant program,” Perdue said in a statement. “We owe it to those who were harmed so many years ago that we take action now, during this session, and provide compensation and services to eligible recipients.”

A friend of one victim said some of them think the compensation should higher.

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Elaine Riddick, 57, right, hugs Australia Clay after the Eugenics Compensation Task Force announced their recommendation during a meeting on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 in Raleigh, that people sterilized under a discredited state program should each receive $50,000. Riddick, and Clay’s mother were both victims. The legislature must still approve any payments but this is the first time the state would compensate surviving victims of its eugenics program. Around 7,600 people were sterilized by choice, force, or coercion between 1929 and 1974.

A House bill introduced Wednesday would offer $50,000 to people ordered sterilized under the authority of the state Eugenics Board.

The board authorized thousands of sterilizations from 1933 to 1974. Rep. Larry Womble, a Winston-Salem Democrat, has been working for years for victim compensation. House Speaker Thom Tillis took up the cause last year.

Under the bill, the state Industrial Commission would determine individuals’ eligibilty. Eligible people would receive the $50,000 tax free.

An initial committee meeting on the bill is scheduled for Tuesday.

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House eugenics bill gives $50,000 to victims

Raleigh, NC– State legislators have filed a bill recommending that people forcibly sterilized decades ago in North Carolina get $50,000 each.

If the legislation becomes law, North Carolina will become the first state to compensate victims of eugenics programs that ended the child-bearing abilities of people deemed undesirable.

In an unusual move, the House sponsors of the bill filed Wednesday include Speaker Thom Tillis. The Republican has said a compensation plan would show state officials are serious about trying to redeem a dark chapter in North Carolina history.

Gov. Beverly Perdue’s budget proposal last week included more than $10 million to give $50,000 in tax-free compensation to each living victim. Some of the funds would support other services of the North Carolina Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation.

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RALEIGH, N.C. –

The legislator who led the fight to get compensation for victims of North Carolina’s sterilization program says he can’t describe how he feels now that a bill has been filed in the state House to provide those benefits.

Rep. Larry Womble says he’s elated that legislators filed a bill Wednesday recommending that victims receive $50,000 in compensation. Womble is a Forsyth County Democrat who has led the fight for compensation for more than 10 years.

But he’s not at the Legislature to see the bill filed. Instead, he’s at home in Winston-Salem, where he’s recovering from injuries suffered in a car wreck in December that killed another man. Womble hopes to return this session.

Womble signed the bill electronically from home.

Womble says he’s pleased the bill’s sponsors include Democrats, Republicans, blacks, whites, men and women.

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Watchdog Alert: The eugenics wars

LOS ANGELES, May 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –King Flex Films just wrapped upfilming an independent horror film entitled The Eugenist, (www.theeugenist.com).

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The film touches on the century-old subject of eugenics,that was founded in the late 1800′s. Eugenics is a controversial pseudoscience that promotes selective breeding in humans in order to improve or recede a certain part of the population. The eugenics movement gained most of itspopularity in the early part of the 20th century.

Some historians have theorized that many of the classic horror movies from the 1930′s were reflective of the ideologies and fears of the eugenics movement. Many movies from this era were based on the concept of the “mad scientist” – a person going to diabolical depths in order to improve or modify human beings.

Frankenstein, Island of Lost Souls, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, are a few examples of horror films that played on this theme. Even the creation of comic book heroes, such as Superman,are based on the eugenics concept of a genetically superior human specimen.

References about eugenics still pop up periodically in modern times. This past February, presidential candidate Rick Santorum accused President Obama of promoting eugenics with the Obamacare program. There was also a recent case of a number of families in North Carolina getting a financial settlement for being victimized by a forced sterilization eugenics program.

In the film The Eugenist, the plot revolves around a group of college studentswho stumble upon an abandoned school. Unbeknownst to them, the school was targeted for a eugenics population control experiment. The students decide to explore the school just for kicks, but once inside, they find out that the school is not so abandoned.

The Eugenist is directed by New York Times best selling author Tariq Nasheed.

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RALEIGH, N.C. The N.C. Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation continues to seek people who were involuntarily sterilized by the state, but progress has been slow.

The State Center for Health Statistics estimates that as many as 2,000 victims may still be alive, but the foundation has been able to verify only 111 so far.

Nearly 7,600 residents across the state were sterilized between 1929 and 1974 with the approval of the N.C. Eugenics Board. The board authorized sterilizations due to illness, disability, economic status, perceived promiscuity and “feeblemindedness” for people as young as 10. North Carolina was the only state to allow social workers to petition to have someone sterilized.

The foundation is seeking people who were sterilized under the program as the state prepares to offer compensation.

Gov. Bev Perdue’s Eugenics Compensation Task Force recommended giving a tax-free payment of $50,000 and mental health services to victims verified by the foundation. Perdue has said she will include the compensation plan in the budget she submits this spring.

Meanwhile, House Speaker Thom Tillis, a Republican, has been working with Democrats Rep. Earline Parmon of Winston-Salem and Sen. Floyd McKissick of Durham, as well as staff and scholars, on a compensation bill that they hope to introduce in the session beginning May 16, according to Jordan Shaw, Tillis’ spokesman.

The foundation continues to receive a large number of calls from residents seeking to determine if they or a family member were sterilized under the program, according to department spokeswoman Jill Warren Lucas. Whenever a news story appears about involuntary sterilization in North Carolina, “it rings a bell and makes a connection” with people who then remember something about a family member and call, Lucas said.

To learn more about sterilization in North Carolina or to submit a request to verify a victim, call the toll-free hotline at 877-550-6013 or visit www.sterilizationvictims.nc.gov.

AUTHOR AND EUGENICS EXPERT TO SPEAK

Author and eugenics expert Edwin Black will give two presentations on the history of eugenics in America and its connection to Nazi Germany on Wednesday. The first will be at noon at the Legislative Auditorium of the General Assembly, 16 W. Jones St. in Raleigh, N.C. Watch a live stream of the event at www.waragainsttheweak.com.

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Search continues for more N.C. sterilization victims

RALEIGH, N.C. An author who has studied state-sponsored sterilization programs that came before Nazi Germany adopted the practice is in North Carolina a month before lawmakers consider compensating victims.

Edwin Black is speaking Wednesday at the General Assembly in Raleigh and later in Research Triangle Park at events co-sponsored by Campbell University’s law school. He’s authored a history of the eugenics movement in America.

From 1929 to 1974, more than 7,600 people in North Carolina were surgically rendered unable to reproduce under state laws and rules that targeted people deemed unfit to be parents. They included epileptics, those considered mentally defective, and many who were simply poor.

Many state lawmakers have come together on the issue, attempting to right the wrong by compensating the victims of the state’s sterilization program. Janice Black, who was sterilized as a teenager, says there isn’t much North Carolina can do to apologize for what happened to her.

“No amount of money is going to repay back what’s been taken from me,” said Black.

State Eugenics Task Force chair Laura Gerald says she knows it’s hard to put a number on the pain caused by the sterilization program, but said she hopes compensation can recognize the state’s mistake and help victims.

“Compensation also serves a collective purpose to the state and sends a clear message that we in North Carolina are are a people who pay for our mistakes,” Gerald said. “We do not tolerate bureaucracies that trample on basic human rights.”

Gov. Beverly Perdue in March asked victims of the sterilization program to come forward as she puts together a budget that includes compensation for them.

The task force report last year said up to 2,000 of the victims were still alive, though the state has verified only 111 so far.

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – An author who has studied state-sponsored sterilization programs that came before Nazi Germany adopted the practice is in North Carolina a month before lawmakers consider compensating victims.

Edwin Black is speaking Wednesday at the General Assembly in Raleigh and later in Research Triangle Park at events co-sponsored by Campbell University’s law school. He’s authored a history of the eugenics movement in America.

From 1929 to 1974, more than 7,600 people in North Carolina were surgically rendered unable to reproduce under state laws and rules that targeted people deemed unfit to be parents. They included epileptics, those considered mentally defective, and many who were simply poor.

A task force report last year said up to 2,000 of the victims were still alive, though the state has verified only 111 so far.

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Author discusses NC eugenics regime at Legislature

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Edwin Black, a Holocaust and eugenics scholar and author of “War Against the Weak,” will present a discussion on North Carolina and global eugenics at noon today in the Legislative Auditorium at the N.C. General Assembly, 16 W. Jones St. in Raleigh.

The N.C. Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation is taking part in the discussion. The discussion is sponsored by Rep. Earline Parmon, D-Forsyth, and the Campbell Law School. It is free.

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Elisabeth Motsinger’s congressional campaign has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, alleging that her Democratic opponent Bruce Peller hasn’t filed financial documents about his campaign.

John Motsinger, Elisabeth Motsinger’s husband and campaign treasurer, said Tuesday that the letter containing the complaint was mailed Friday to the election commission.

Peller said financial documents were sent to the commission Monday.

Elisabeth Motsinger and Peller are running for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. House 5th District seat. The winner will face incumbent Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx in the Nov. 6 general election.

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