OUTRAGEOUS! After Giving Birth - State Of NC Orders Sterilization For Raped 13 Year Old

[kpete]

Victims speak out about North Carolina sterilization program, which targeted women, young girls and blacks
Mon Nov 7, 2011 9:09 AM EST

By Michelle Kessel and Jessica Hopper
Rock Center

Elaine Riddick was 13 years old when she got pregnant after being raped by a neighbor in Winfall, N.C., in 1967. The state ordered that immediately after giving birth, she should be sterilized. Doctors cut and tied off her fallopian tubes.

“I have to carry these scars with me. I have to live with this for the rest of my life,” she said.

Riddick was never told what was happening. “Got to the hospital and they put me in a room and that’s all I remember, that’s all I remember,” she said. “When I woke up, I woke up with bandages on my stomach.”

Riddick’s records reveal that a five-person state eugenics board in Raleigh had approved a recommendation that she be sterilized. The records label Riddick as “feebleminded” and “promiscuous.” They said her schoolwork was poor and that she “does not get along well with others.”

http://rockcenter.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/07/8640744-victims-speak-out-about-north-carolina-sterilization-program-which-targeted-women-young-girls-and-blacks

[redqueen]

1. Also here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2256616

[tblue]

2. How Naziesque.

"While North Carolina’s eugenics board was disbanded in 1977, the law allowing involuntary sterilization wasn’t officially repealed until 2003."

Holy crap! That's criminal!!!

[no_hypocrisy]

4. The Third Reich took their cue from THIS COUNTRY when they set up

their eugenics program. How'd that turn out?

[no_hypocrisy]

3. *Please* appreciate that SC case Buck v. Bell has *NEVER* been reversed.

States are allowed to sterilize citizens after "due process", that is, a hearing. But it's wholesale sterilization of anyone the state deems to be "enfeebled".

These laws have been on the books, esp. down South, for almost a century.

[TreasonousBastard]

14. No, but Skinner v Oklahoma made sterilization laws almost impossible to use.

[no_hypocrisy]

16. True, but notice the sterilization laws haven't been repealed and are still on the books.

[TreasonousBastard]

18. Which ones? I thought they were all off the books, but...

even if some are still left, who's gonna try it these days?

[no_hypocrisy]

22. It's irrelevant whether they aren't utilized. They're still ready to be reactivated in the future

if they haven't been repealed.

I'm not sure which states still have them, sorry. I can try to find out.

[libodem]

5. How very sad

[libinnyandia]

6. To be truly consistent with the beliefs of these right wing idiots

what the states did was murder of future babies.

[Lionessa]

7. Over 50 years ago, no duh. All manner of folks particularly non-whites

went through this kind of crap. Just worth noting this is not a current issue in any state anymore, I don't believe.

[JuniperLea]

8. This is a filthy Nazi trick!

Appalling is putting it mildly.

What about sterilizing the rapist?

[Warpy]

9. I used to see patients at the state mental hospital

who had been sterilized without their consent, usually as young girls. Most were Down's or borderline retarded. All had enough brain power to know what had happened to them and all were sad because of it.

I never saw anyone over the age of consent sterilized (or under it while I was there). I did see quite a few IUDs placed.

Eugenics went on a hell of a lot longer down south than it did anywhere else and was all directed at girls and women. No man ever lost a single ball.

[Scuba]

10. "state eugenics board" kinda says it all, doesn't it?

[ProgressiveProfessor]

11. Duplicate thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2256616

[Odin2005]

12. Sounds like a sick excuse to keep black women from having kids!

:grr:

[MineralMan]

13. 30 states in the US had involuntary sterilization laws.

30. California was the worst, sterilizing over 20,000 women. I'm not sure why this is showing up now. I remember sending protest mail to the state of California in 1963. There was a movement to ban such sterilizations. Shortly thereafter, the law was repealed in California.

This is not just a North Carolina thing at all. 30 states! The SCOTUS even upheld involuntary sterilization as OK at one point.

[TreasonousBastard]

15. This was over 40 years ago-- why relive the outrage now when there are no more eugenics laws?

[RaleighNCDUer]

17. Because there is discussion of restitution being payed to the victims. nt

[TreasonousBastard]

19. Again? I thought that was dealt with years ago.

[Lyric]

21. Because there are people who think we should go back to some variation of that.

Liberals, even.

[Morning Dew]

20. Poor schoolwork and “does not get along well with others.”? Could make a case for sterilizing

Rick Perry

or Shrub