[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)
        
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 (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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