The knife follows the paper: the sterilization layer
Year: 1907 · Places: Virginia, Carolinas, Gulf Coast, Oklahoma & the Five Tribes, Ayiti, South America, Europe, Africa
SUMMARYThe knife follows the paper: the sterilization layer (Nov 6, 2026; researched with Claude Fable). Claim: wherever a state wrote a people down as unfit, criminal, foreign or surplus, it followed the label with sterilization, and in every documented case the state's own records are the proof. Record: 38 new entries, 1907–2025, five continents (outbreaks layer, now 120 rows; 47 in this category). Indiana's first law (1907), 32 US states by 1937. Eugenics Record Office funded by Harriman (about $800k plus $300k), run by Carnegie (1917–39), with Rockefeller grants; Laughlin's model law, copied by Virginia (1924) and Germany (1933). Buck v. Bell (1927), 8–1, never overturned and still cited (2001, 2019). Carrie Buck's record checked: no evidence of "feeblemindedness" in three generations (Lombardo). Skinner v. Oklahoma (1942). California about 20,000; North Carolina about 7,600, mostly women papered as Negro on welfare after 1960 (Schoen); Elaine Riddick, 14 (1968); Nial Ruth Cox v. Stanton; Mississippi HB 180 (1964). Grady Depo-Provera (1967–78; count Disputed, consent failures in the FDA's 1983 record). Madrigal v. Quilligan (1975–78); HEW rules (1979). Oregon (to 1981); Vermont and the Abenaki (apology 2021). Norplant (1990–91); Project Prevention; California prisons (144 women, auditor 2014). White County, TN (2017); Irwin County ICE (Senate report 2022). Canada's Indigenous women (Senate 2021–22); Romani women in Czechia (compensation 2021) and Slovakia (ECtHR 2011). Sweden (about 63,000); Alberta (2,832; Muir won 1996); Japan (about 16,500; Supreme Court 2024); Greenland's IUD campaign (about 4,500; apology 2025). Brazil's CPI (about 7.5 million; 1991–93). USAID's population office under Ravenholt ("a quarter of the world's fertile women," 1977). South Africa's HIV-positive women (2020). Paid so far: NC, Virginia, California, Alberta, Sweden, Czechia, Japan. Disputed: Bangladesh food-aid link (1984); Xinjiang intent. Open: Uzbekistan (no state document); dollar totals per German institute. Killed: none; every entry passed the date and document test. Pattern: the targets track the label, not the condition. Programs end when a survivor speaks on the record and an auditor or court must read the state's own file. Ayiti lens: "First they wrote us down. Then they cut. The paper is still there, and so are we." Note from Fable: "papered as Negro/Black" is the record's label; the descent claim behind it stays Pattern until the Accomac chain closes (Rule 6).