MONTPELIER, Vt. -- A Vermont legislative committee is taking up the question of whether the state should apologize for a 20th century program to sterilize citizens who were labeled feeble-minded or criminal.
The House Human Services Committee takes testimony Tuesday on the measure, a nonbinding resolution expressing the state's regret about the so-called eugenics movement.
Backers of the resolution say its harms fell disproportionately on Vermonters of Abenaki and French-Canadian heritage, as well as poor Irish and Italian immigrants.
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