Sterilisation program that ran in the US state of North Carolina from 1929 to 1974 was explicitly designed to 'breed out' black citizens – study
The new paper, published in the American Review of Political Economy, says almost 7,600 men, women and children as young as 10 were surgically sterilised under the programme, preventing people deemed"feebleminded" and others from becoming parents.
Almost 7,600 men, women and children as young as 10 were surgically sterilised under the programme that was created to serve the "public good" by preventing people deemed "feebleminded" and others from becoming parents. This includes, according to the text of the Geneva Convention, "imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group".
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