By City News Service
Jul 14, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors today urged state leaders to fund reparations to more than 240 survivors of forced sterilizations conducted at LAC+USC Medical Center between 1968 and 1974.
Supervisor Hilda Solis said it was time to reckon with the past, offering a motion that also called on the county to explore stepping up if the state does not act. Any intentional efforts to address systemic racism and build more equitable approaches into county services moving forward must confront the most egregious sins of the past, Solis said.
Forced sterilizations began in California with a 1909 eugenics law that allowed doctors at state institutions to operate on people deemed unfit to have children. More than 20,000 people including some in their teens were victimized before the law s repeal in 1979.
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