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Since he won the GOP nomination, Slaughter’s fight has become only more intense. In Tuesday’s general election, he faces Winchester attorney Lewis M. Costello, a Democrat, and Independent Robert E. Frazier, of Earlysville, for a two-year term in House of Representatives.
Slaughter says Costello, through radio advertising, has raised and distorted the record on an issue unrelated to the congressional campaign: The involuntary sterilization of mentally retarded people in Virginia.
Since Oct. 19, the Costello campaign has broadcast radio ads which state that Slaughter, who served 196878 as a Democrat in the Virginia House of Delegates, repeatedly voted to create and not to repeal laws which allow involuntary sterilization.
In a prepared statement, released Saturday, Slaughter said: “My opponent’s radio ads lead listeners to believe Virginia first adopted a sterilization law in 1962 and abolished such law in 1974. This is not true.
“Let’s set the record straight. An involuntary sterilization law has been on the books since 1924 and is in effect today. Involuntary sterilization was not abolished in 1974 but was continued in 1974 and again in 1981 — when French Slaughter was not in the state legislature. In 1981, that bill passed the House of Delegates by a vote of 95 to 2.
“Lew Costello has played fast and loose with the facts on this subject. What can you expect from him on other issues?
“This subject has become the main
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