N.C. House to study sterilization compensation
RALEIGH (AP) - North Carolina's Speaker of the House is reviving a plan to compensate people sterilized as part of a state-sponsored program.
House Speaker Joe Hackney said Friday he's assembling a special panel of lawmakers to study how much the state should pay those affected and how claims for compensation would be considered.
Between 1929 and 1975, the program sterilized about 7,600 people who were considered mentally handicapped or genetically inferior. Most of the women sterilized in the 1960s were poor black women.
It was the third largest program in the nation, behind those California and Virginia.
The committee will report to the House by the end of the year.
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