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Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare (Gender and American Culture) (Updated Edition) by Johanna Schoen Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2005 ISBN-10: 0-8078-5585-5 / 0807855855 ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-5585-0 / 9780807855850 In August 2003, North Carolina became the first U.S. state to offer restitution to victims of state-ordered sterilizations carried out by its eugenics program between 1929 and 1975. The decision was prompted largely by a series of articles in the Winston-Salem Journal. These stories were inspired in |