RALEIGH, N.C., June 21 (UPI) -- North Carolina's failure to approve a plan to compensate victims of forced sterilization has devastated survivors, the head of a victims' organization said. <\/p>\n
Republicans in the North Carolina Senate turned down a House plan Wednesday to give $50,000 to each surviving victim of the state's decades-long sterilization program, The (Raleigh, N.C.) News & Observer reported. <\/p>\n
The plan hit a dead end during negotiations between the House and the Senate. <\/p>\n
Executive Director Charmaine Fuller Cooper of the N.C. Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation said the Legislature's failure to approve a compensation plan has \"really devastated victims.\" <\/p>\n
\"Even though they are 80, 90 years old they remember it vividly. They had to reopen old wounds,\" she said. \"They're angry and they have justification in how they feel.\" <\/p>\n
North Carolina began one of the most active eugenics programs in the country in 1929 when a state board ordered sterilization for poor, feeble-minded, mentally diseased or people likely to have disabled children. <\/p>\n
The program continued until 1974. <\/p>\n
Cooper's foundation estimates 1,350 to 1,800 people were victims of the program <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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