N.C. Eugenics Victims Shut Out of Settlement By Law’s Wording

December 8, 2014

(Charlotte Observer) – More than 7,000 people were involuntarily sterilized under North Carolina’s decades-long eugenics program. Now 10 words may keep many from being compensated for it. The state has awarded $4.4 million to 220 victims. But scores more, possibly hundreds, may find themselves ineligible for payments because of the way a 2013 law was written. Lawmakers created a $10 million fund for people sterilized “under the authority of the Eugenics Board of North Carolina.”