NC tries to repeal eugenics law; deaths found
Raleigh, NC, Feb. 21, 2003 --The North Carolina legislature acted this week to repeal a law that allowed 7,600 people to be sterilized against their will during the last century.
The law gave the state's Eugenics Board authority to order sterilizations for people who had mental retardation, mental illness, or other disabilities under the later-discredited belief that they would pass their "problems" on to their children and society in general.