March 25, 2013 In a unanimous vote, the West Virginia House of Delegates repealed their state’s forced sterilization law, which had been on the books since 1929. West Virginia was the last state in the U.S. to repeal eugenic sterilization legislation.

-Caroline Lyster

• Repealed: West Virginia’s Forced Sterilization Law. (2013). Justice for Sterilization Victims Project. Retrieved from http://www.forcedsterilization.org/west-virginias-unconstitutional-law-sterilization-of-mental-defectives/.