North Carolina confronts its history of forced sterilization.

It's amazing to me that this sort of thing happened in my lifetime. Forced sterilization of women (99% were women) - they targeted those who were most vulnerable and least likely to fight back; welfare recipients, rape victims, or if you were just considered lazy or promiscuous (I'm curious as to whose standards those two were measured). It also helped if you were black, since over 60% of those sterilized were black women.

I read about this being done in Oregon as well, although the targets there were mentally retarded people. Eugenics, they called it. "Good Breeding".

I just call it shameful.