[Washington Examiner] The Vermont Senate passed a resolution apologizing to Vermonters past and present "who were harmed as a result of state-sanctioned eugenics policies and practices."Senators unanimously passed Joint Resolution 2 on Wednesday, joining the state’s House of Representatives, which adopted it on April 1, in an effort to make amends for various measures and policies in the state’s history seeking to control reproduction among certain racial and disability groups.
The resolution listed off numerous people and measures that contributed to Vermont's eugenics policies and practices, which it said targeted those of French Canadian, and French-Indian ancestry, as well as other indigenous peoples and the disabled. It said such measures were "targeted for elimination those it deemed currently or potentially delinquent, defective, and dependent persons through sterilizations, primarily of women, to prevent individuals from having children."