There have only been 48 people that have come forward in this case. The job of finding the other few thousand who are still believed to be alive falls on the shoulders of the North Carolina Institute for Sterilization Victims Foundation.

One of the survivors is named Elaine Riddick. She was r@ped when she was just 13 years old and became pregnant as a result. When she gave birth, she was sterilized. She has been a huge force and is trying to speak out for herself and the other survivors, and has tried to get compensation from the state for a while, but nothing ever seemed to work. She says she is amazed at what they are doing now, but money isn’t enough. Riddick says there is no amount of money that can take away the humiliation of someone stealing your ability to reproduce and castrating you.  read more