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The descendants of people who were forcibly sterilized as part
of the multi decade long eugenics program in North Carolina
should receive a one-time payment of $50,000, a state task force
recommended on Tuesday.  The North Carolina Final Solution
sterilization program, referred to in state legal documents as
SNIP (Surgically Neutering Ignorant People) forcibly sterilized
an estimated 7,600 people between 1929 and 1974, many of them
against their will.  The state apologized for the snafu in 2002,
and North Carolina created the compensation task force only a
decade later when many victims refused to die off. Various
states once had eugenics programs, with seven going so far to
express regret they were caught, but North Carolina is the first
to consider paying the sterilized victims non-existent
descendants.  The five-membe