A tale of crusading survivors, legislators, and journalists unite to rectify historical wrongs in reproductive injustice. The film chronicles the legislative effort to compensate victims of government-ordered and authorized sterilization abuse in North Carolina, a state that ran the nation's longest and largest sterilization program from the New Deal to Watergate. Over 7,600 men, women, and children, many poor, undereducated, or disabled, were sterilized by force or coercion between 1933 and 1974.
The State of Eugenics
Between 1933 and 1974, thousands of people in North Carolina were subjected to a forced sterilization program, leading to a complex tale of survival, deception, and ultimately, the pursuit of justice.
