The first serious proposal to compensate victims of forced
sterilization failed Wednesday when North Carolina legislators said they
were not approving any money for them. One ardent supporter declared:
"At this point, I have lost all hope."
The effort to give each victim $50,000 passed the House, but the
Senate never gave the measure consideration. Republican lawmakers in
that chamber said the state didn't have the money in such a tight budget
year to make up for misguided, decades-old procedures. Legislators also
feared paying the victims would lead other groups, such as descendants
of slaves, to seek reparations.
"If you could lay the issue to rest, it might be one thing. But I'm not
so sure it would lay the issue at rest because if you start compensating
people who have been `victimized' by past history, I don't know where
that would end," Republican Sen. Austin Allran said.
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