The US state of North Carolina has adopted a budget that includes $10m (£6.5m) to compensate victims of forced sterilisation. About 7,600 people were sterilised in North Carolina from 1929 to 1974. Many were poor black women.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23460719 Those sterilised were picked out for such reasons as being deemed promiscuous, or because they were unpopular […]