Virginia Legislature Approves Restitution to Victims of Forced Sterilization

The Roanoke Times: Forced sterilization victims in Virginia awarded compensation:

Rose Brooks would have loved to have children and a family of her own one day.

“But they said, no, no, no, you can’t,” she said.

Brooks, 73, of Lynchburg, was one of thousands affected by Virginia’s decades-long policy of involuntary sterilization of those deemed mentally unfit or inferior.

The eugenics-based practice, now renounced, was in effect from the 1920s to 1970s. . . .