State plans to pay $15,000 to those sterilized against their will in 1930s eugenics movement and more recently in state prisons
Photograph: Jae C Hong/APPhotograph: Jae C Hong/APAbout 600 people alive today can’t have children because California’s government sterilized them either against their will or without their knowledge, and now the state is trying to find them so it can pay them at least $15,000 each in reparations.
California in 2021 was the third state to approve a reparations program for forced sterilizations, joining North Carolina and Virginia. But California was the first state to also include more recent victims from its state prison system. The hope is that victims’ friends or relatives will see the ads and help their loved one apply for the program. Only victims are eligible for payments. But if a victim dies after being approved but before receiving the total payment, they can designate a beneficiary – such as a family member – to receive the money.“We take that mission very seriously to find these folks,” Gledhill said. “Nothing we can do can make up for what happened to them.
Wendy Carrillo, a Democratic member of the California assembly who pushed to get the program approved, said she will ask lawmakers to extend the application deadline beyond 2023. She wants to give victims more time to apply, and she wants to expand the program to include victims who were sterilized at county-funded hospitals. The Los Angeles county board of supervisors apologized in 2018 after more than 200 women were sterilized at the Los Angeles-USC medical center between 1968 and 1974.
One of those people is Moonlight Pulido, who was serving a life sentence for premeditated attempted murder. While in prison in 2005, Pulido said a doctor told her he needed to remove two “growths” that could be cancer. She signed a form and had surgery. Later, something didn’t feel right. She was constantly sweating and not feeling like herself.
“I sat there and I looked at it and I cried. I cried because I have never had that much money ever in my life,” she said.
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