Virginia considers 'payment' to eugenics victims

Eighty-five years after U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Virginia eugenics law allowing the state to forcibly sterilize anyone it considered genetically deficient, a state lawmaker is calling on Gov. Bob McDonnell and the General Assembly to make a symbolic payment to any living victims of the law.

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(1) Virginia considers 'payment' to eugenics victims
URL: http://washingtonexaminer.com/virginia-considers-payment-to-eugenics-victims/article/2504182


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