 1,000 people, including those with mental illnesses, were forcibly sterilized under a eugenics law that was only scrapped in 1996. 8,000 more are thought to have been pressured into being sterilized. Jean McKenzie reports. The government has always refused to acknowledge the law was unconstitutional. And until now, victims had only been entitled to around $20,000 in compensation. But this, for many, was not nearly sufficient to address the harm and distress