The past could be our future if the Tea Party Republicans have their way!

Perhaps in light of this we should insist, demand that Vitter, Clarence Thomas and others like them be castrated. (publicly would suit me fine) After all there is no doubt in my mind that they are not only "promiscuous" but certainly they could be considered "he-whores"!  If anyone thinks that the tea party republicans are NOT trying to take us back to this time and place then I would suggest a good shrink, an eye doctor or a hearing aid because you are not paying attention!-Mem

  onNC woman sterilized because state deemed her ‘promiscuous’

• Posted on 06.23.11
• By David Edwards

The day that Elaine Riddick had her first and only child at the age of 14, 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, now 57, 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?”

North Carolina is the first state to consider a $20,000 payment to victims of sterilizations, but it is doubtful that the Republican-controlled legislature will set aside the necessary funds.

CBS News noted that more than 60,000 women in 32 states were sterilized from the 1920′s to the 1970s to keep down welfare costs.

The practice is no longer in use.

Watch this video from CBS News, broadcast June 23, 2011.