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Push wanted to pay
sterilization victims
The U.S. Supreme Court docket dominated in 1927, Buck v. Bell, that states had the precise to sterilize institutionalized folks.
At present, about 600 survivors out of the greater than 20,000 California victims are eligible for reparations. In 2022, solely three folks forcibly sterilized at Sonoma State Hospital obtained reparations of $15,000 every from the California Victims Compensation Board.
Venture groups on the Division of Developmental Companies, Division of State Hospitals and California Division of Correction and Rehabilitation are composed of just one worker, as a substitute of involving survivors and advocates, to resolve websites and sorts of memorials. The Pressured or Involuntary Sterilization Compensation Program ends on Dec. 31. With out direct outreach to survivors urging them to use for compensation and involving them within the decision-making for the memorials at California websites, there will probably be no reconciliation or sufficient reparations for the victims.
Sherry Smith
Glen Ellen
We’re too fast to
ascribe hate as motive
Re: “Supreme Court docket strips LGBTQ residents of rights” (Web page A7, July 5).
A latest letter to the editor acknowledged that the conservative Supreme Court docket justices hate the LGBTQ group. This isn’t true. The Christians I do know don’t hate folks of the LGBTQ group. As a Christian, I don’t care or have to know what the sexual choice of one other particular person is.
The difficulty is whether or not anybody can drive somebody to make use of their inventive skills to advertise rules they’re basically against. One might disagree with the Supreme Court docket’s determination, however the determination was primarily based on spiritual and free speech freedom, not hate.
When atheists file lawsuits towards governmental entities for his or her involvement with faith, I don’t see hate, I see disagreement over spiritual liberty points. As a society, nevertheless, we proceed to attribute hate to each motion or determination we disagree with. A tragic state of affairs.
Douglas Abbott
Union Metropolis
Jail transfers threaten
girls inmate’s security
Re: “Extra California prisoners are requesting gender-affirming well being care, together with surgical procedures” (June 26).
Final week, the East Bay Occasions ran an article relating to prisoners transferring from males’s prisons to girls’s prisons, a coverage that’s authorized beneath Scott Wiener’s SB 132. Nevertheless, the sympathy in these points is primarily one-sided on behalf of trans-identifying males with none thought to feminine inmates.
