Va. considers 'payment' to eugenics victims

Eighty-five years after U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Virginia eugenics law allowing the state to forcibly sterilize anyone it considered genetically deficient, a state lawmaker is calling on Gov. Bob McDonnell and the General Assembly to make a symbolic payment to any living victims of the law.

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Va. considers 'payment' to eugenics victims

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