In July of 1933, the North Carolina State Legislature formed the EBNC. The EBNC is The Eugenics Board of North Carolina. The board was formed to repeal a 1929 law that had been put in place to provide sterilization for persons that were feeble minded and mentally defective in North Carolinian penal institutes. The EBNC was put in place when the act was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court because it permanently affects the lives of inmates in a system similar to bartering. There was the perception of fairness to inmates who are being coerced into contraceptive intake or “sterilization”. After some time, the extent of the Board's work expanded from an emphasis on unadulterated selective breeding to considering …show more content…
That did not mean eliminate the possibilities of poorer areas reproducing. It did not involve permanent defects on test subjects simply because they are poor. Eugenics in the penal system took the negative approach and called it a “movement” using the poor and imprisoned as subject studies of that movement. The eugenics movements in the United States, Germany, and Scandinavia favored the negative approach. The courts would offer shorter sentences to people who would agree to be sterilized, knowing that they would take it because they could not afford bond and would want a shorter sentence. Eugenics is not a thought of morale and is not designed to save the entire human race, just the upper socioeconomic class. In North Carolina, feeble minded individuals were used as subjects for all kinds of genocidal experiments. Feeble minded simply means someone who suffers from an illness or mental deficiency and are often easier persuaded because they think they are getting help when they were really being coerced into becoming a test