Sterilizing the Sick, Poor to Cut Welfare Costs: North Carolina’s History of Eugenics

August 4, 2011

Poor, a victim of child molestation and pregnant from rape, 14-year-old Elaine Riddick went into a North Carolina hospital in 1968 to give birth to her son. Though she wouldn’t know it until years later, she would leave the hospital robbed of the ability to ever bear children again. (ABC News)