This is one of the most repulsive, barbaric, unconscionable acts ever committed by a bible belt state. Or anywhere. The victim of a rape was sterilized as part of a court order. She was found to be ‘feeble-minded’ and ‘promiscuous’ (too bad this didn’t happen in South Carolina; Mark Sanford would be in real trouble). Good thing NC didn’t include stoning in its punishment. American Taliban, indeed.
The day that Elaine Riddick had her first and only child, the state of North Carolina had her sterilized on the orders of a court. Riddick had been raped but the state said she was promiscuous.
“They said that I was feeble-minded, they said that I was promiscuous,” Riddick told CBS News. “I’ve always been able to take care of myself – I’ve never been promiscuous.”
“So how can people use these things to describe a child that had been abandoned? Or that had been raped by the neighbor and then again, raped by the state of North Carolina?”
Oh by the way, Riddick is black. But you knew that already.
