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Victims Speak Out About Forced Sterilization In The U.S.A.

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Source: Dateline Zero 

 

State-ordered sterilizations targeted at young girls and blacks, were done out without knowledge or consent.


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

As if all this weren’t horrific enough, 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 told MSNBC. “When I woke up, I woke up with bandages on my stomach.”

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

Eugenics in the USA

According to the MSNBC article, Riddick’s records reveal that a five-person state eugenics board in Raleigh had approved a recommendation that she be sterilized. North Carolina was one of 31 states to have a government run eugenics program. They report that “By the 1960s, tens of thousands of Americans were sterilized as a result of these programs.”

The records label Riddick as “feebleminded” and “promiscuous.” They said her schoolwork was poor and that she “does not get along well with others.”

“I was raped by a perpetrator [who was never charged] and then I was raped by the state of North Carolina. They took something from me both times,” she said. “The state of North Carolina, they took something so dearly from me, something that was God given.”

It wouldn’t be until Riddick was 19, married and wanting more children, that she’d learn she was incapable of having any more babies. A doctor in New York where she was living at the time told her that she’d been sterilized.

“Butchered. The doctor used that word. I didn’t understand what she meant when she said I had been butchered,” Riddick said.

We tend to think that programs like this only existed in some distant country; and the advocates of these programs would never be found here in America. But the fact is, a lot of influential people living here in the U.S.A. were enthralled with eugenics. Making it worse, a lot of these same people were (what I like to call) state-supremacists; people who believe that the State can and should do whatever it takes to make the collective bigger, faster, stronger.

Collectivists cannot be bothered with things like “individual liberty.”

For the greater collective good

It’s a fact of history that many of the people involved in early the birth-control / family planning movement had some less-than-noble motives. The article explains about eugenics in the United States:

Eugenics was a scientific theory that grew in popularity during the 1920s. Eugenicists believed that poverty, promiscuity and alcoholism were traits that were inherited. To eliminate those society ills and improve society’s gene pool, proponents of the theory argued that those that exhibited the traits should be sterilized.

Some of America’s wealthiest citizens of the time were eugenicists including Dr. Clarence Gamble of the Procter and Gamble fortune and James Hanes of the hosiery company. Hanes helped found the Human Betterment League which promoted the cause of eugenicists.

Another major advocate for eugenics was Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood. She boasted that eugenics is “the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems” (“The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda”, October 1921, page 5).

Regardless of how one feels about Sanger’s work, and of her organization Planned Parenthood; one has to acknowledge that people like Sanger, and Dr. Gamble were enthralled with an ideology that was collectivist and materialistic in the worst way.

Naturally, after World War II ended and the extent of the NAZI’s crimes were revealed to the world, Sanger condemned such atrocities. Indeed, eugenics began to fall out of “fashion” after the world witnessed where such thinking can lead. There’s a reason why, in the 1960s, government-sponsored eugenics panels were rather secretive; and why such programs were eventually disbanded.

Quoting Sanger again: “As an advocate of birth control I wish … to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the ‘unfit’ and the ‘fit,’ admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation” (“The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda”, October 1921, page 5).

Note the words “feeble-minded.” That five-person state eugenics board in Raleigh ordered Riddick to be sterilized when she was labeled as “feebleminded” and “promiscuous,” and because she got poor grades. The state-supremacists who sat on the government panel didn’t want the poor black girl with poor grades to be breeding.

Between 1929 and 1974, 7,600 people were sterilized in North Carolina. MSNBC reports that of those who were sterilized, 85 percent of the victims were female and 40 percent were non-white. The article also says: “While North Carolina’s eugenics board was disbanded in 1977, the law allowing involuntary sterilization wasn’t officially repealed until 2003.”

Read the full article at Dateline Zero [includes video]

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