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"Oregon's major party candidates for governor say the current. chief executive should apologise for the state's forced sterilisation of 2,650 people over 66 years" (The Oregonian, 31st July 02, quoted by Nancy Valko). The 1917 law allowing it was abrogated in 1983. "Bill Lynch of the Oregon Council of Developmental Disabilities, and Michael Bailey who has a daughter with Down's Syndrome, said the organisations they represent are not seeking monetary damages., Instead they want a public apology to acknowledge what happened to victims the most of whom were in state institutions - and to correct the historical record and to affirm basic human rights." It now appears that the records of the Board of Eugenics have been shredded, in contravention of state law.
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