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Virginia to Compensate Victims of Forced Sterilizations

BILL SIZEMORE, Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) โ€” Lewis Reynolds didnโ€™t understand what had been done to him when he was 13. Years later, after getting married, the Lynchburg man discovered he couldnโ€™t father children. The reason: He had been sterilized by the state. Reynolds was among more than 7,000 Virginians involuntarily sterilized between 1924 […]

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