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North Carolina’s effort to become the first state to compensate people subjected to involuntary sterilizations failed when legislators passed a $20.2 billion budget that does not include proposed $50,000 payments for each of the 146 victims still alive. Nearly 7,600 people, mostly women, were sterilized from 1929 to 1974 in a state-sanctioned eugenics program that forced sterilizations and castrations on citizens deemed unfit to bear children in North Carolina.

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