Forced Sterilization: The Story We'd Like to Forget
Share I was sitting in my car last Wednesday night and turned on WUNC radio. I was riveted to the car seat. The story was about North Carolina’s forced sterilizations that lasted from 1933 to 1974, after 7600 men and women had been sterilized. Elaine Riddich tearfully recounted how she had been raped at age 14. When the...