The NAACP National Office joins with the South Carolina State Conference NAACP and the Charleston Branch NAACP in denouncing the comments of county council candidate Nancy Cook, who also sits on the Charleston County School Board.
While being interviewed on WTMA-AM's morning show April 3, Cook suggested that teen mothers and unmarried women who have more than one child should either be sterilized or have subsequent children removed from their custody.
"Such comments are strikingly incendiary and offensive," said NAACP Field Operations Chief Rev. Nelson B. Rivers, III. "Her words are especially insulting coming from a female in the American South, where poor women were once involuntarily sterilized and often labeled as
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