{"id":21783,"date":"2011-06-24T12:31:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T19:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=21783"},"modified":"2011-06-30T13:39:54","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:39:54","slug":"froced-sterilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/06\/24\/froced-sterilization\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina Mulls Compensating Victims of Forced Sterilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-062411\/2011_06_24_ross.MP3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-062411\/2011_06_24_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=55% src=\"http:\/\/t3.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT7yL8d7t-cGvyoiY1bcr152NQ97NVKMqVwPv1JHsmeOzbW26c2GQ\" alt=\"sterilization\" \/>A 14 year-old is raped, and upon giving birth her illiterate grandmother unknowingly signs away her granddaughter&#8217;s right to ever have another child. The state forcibly sterilized the teenager, and she wouldn&#8217;t realize it until years later. This story, according to CBS news, is one of many from women who were victims of a dark period in US medical history. Some 60,000 women in 32 states were victims of forced, state imposed sterilization. They were commonly young, poor, and women who the state deemed &#8220;promiscuous&#8221; or &#8220;feeble minded&#8221;. Time magazine reports that North Carolina sterilized over 7,000 girls from 1929 through the 1970s. It is the first state to consider financially compensating victims of the practice. However, it&#8217;s next to impossible to put a dollar amount on the suffering imposed on victims of the practice. Payments of $20,000 each are being proposed, costing the state about $69 million dollars in payments to all survivors.<\/p>\n<p>GUEST: Loretta Ross, founding member and National Coordinator of Sister Song, a Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective<\/p>\n<p>Find out more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sistersong.net\">www.sistersong.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 14 year-old is raped, and upon giving birth her illiterate grandmother unknowingly signs away her granddaughter&#8217;s right to ever have another child. The state forcibly sterilized the teenager, and she wouldn&#8217;t realize it until years later. This story, according to CBS news, is one of many from women who were victims of a dark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}