[HN Gopher] 'You Just Feel Like Nothing': California to Pay Ster...
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'You Just Feel Like Nothing': California to Pay Sterilization
Victims
Author : mistersquid
Score : 15 points
Date : 2021-07-11 21:41 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.nytimes.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com)
| failwhaleshark wrote:
| In Virginia c. 1956, my grandmother was supposed to have an
| appendectomy. The Navy surgeon did this and also performed a
| radical hysterectomy (involuntary sterilization). It was said the
| surgeon was drunk, but it could've been a purposeful policy back
| then too.
| elromulous wrote:
| "California is prepared to... pay... an estimated $25,000 each."
|
| What a joke. Compensation for state forced sterilization should
| be orders of magnitude greater than that.
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