Elaine Riddick wipes away tears as she listens to Rep. Larry Womble tell his fellow legislators to do what's right and approve funding for the Eugenics Compensation Program during a House committee meeting on Tuesday, May 22, 2012. The committee did approve the bill to provide compensation for victims of North Carolina's forced sterilization program. Womble has worked more than a decade on this bill. This is his first time back in the Legislature since being injured in an automobile wreck in December 2011. As a teenager, Riddick was one of the 7,600 people who were sterilized by choice, force, or coercion between 1929 and 1974 SHAWN ROCCO — srocco@newsobserver.com