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California will allocate $7.5m for paying reparations to people forcibly sterilized under the state's eugenics law.
The law, which was in effect from 1909 to 1979, led to the forced sterilization of more than 20,000 poor people, disabled people, and people of color. Even after 1979, the state continued the forced sterilization of women in prison.
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