Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is at odds with fellow Republicans over whether victims of the state’s involuntary sterilization program 50 years ago can sue the state for compensation. The ...

In a massive lawsuit seeking $10 million each, 510 women are suing the health system and senior executives for negligence, ...

Every day, Elizabeth Catte drove by Staunton’s old Western State Hospital, which was being renovated and given a new life. Others in town were excited about the luxurious Blackburn Inn & Conference ...

The number of victims is unknown in Virginia’s system of forced sterilization, a dark chapter that stretched from the 1920s into the 1970s. Estimates range from 7,500 to 8,000 — an indication that ...

Lawmakers in the US state of Virginia have agreed to pay compensation to people who were forcibly sterilised by the authorities decades ago. Victims will be paid $25,000 (£16,000) following a legal ...

With Roe v. Wade gone could lawmakers limit reproductive decisions based on genetics? Virginia lawmakers outlawed the practice of eugenics in 1974, but some legal scholars argue the 2022 U.S. Supreme ...

Advocates for people who were sterilized in Virginia under the misguided science of eugenics are seeking compensation for surviving victims in the upcoming session of the General Assembly, with more ...

Before I tell you about this historical, shocking and true story of eugenics in the United States, “Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck,” let me tell ...

Introduction : you are your brother's keeper! -- "The sacrifice of a race" : Virginia's proto-eugenicists survey humanity -- "Rearing the human thoroughbred ...

The Virginia state legislature scrapped the Eugenical Sterilisation Act in 1979 Lawmakers in the US state of Virginia have agreed to pay compensation to people who were forcibly sterilised by the ...