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The medical system has failed Black Americans for centuries. Could reparations be the answer?

Carlos Basabe for Vox The growing, and sometimes conflicted, calls for cash payments to achieve parity and better health outcomes, explained. In 1972, two social workers set Debra Blackmon’s sterilization in motion. The primary diagnosis in her medical records read: mental retardation severe. Soon, Blackmon would undergo a total abdominal hysterectomy, a procedure, sanctioned by the local government, to remove her uterus and cervix. She was 14. Since 1929, the state of North Carolina had been signing off on forced sterilization for those they deemed unfit to have children. Through its eugenics programs, the state sterilized more than 7,600 people, under the notion that halting reproduction by “mentally defective” people would benefit ...

Vox     Dec 31, 2022