May 2 1927 Buck v Bell US Supreme Ct, Sterilization of Unfit; Eugenics,1924 Immigration Law, Nazis

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- Carrie and Emma Buck.
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Buck v. Bell (1927) SUMMARY

In Buck v. Bell, decided on May 2, 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court, by a vote of 8 to 1, affirmed the constitutionality of Virginia’s law allowing state-enforced sterilization. After being raised by foster parents and allegedly raped by their nephew, the appellant, Carrie Buck, was deemed feebleminded and promiscuous. In 1924, Buck was committed to the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded, near Lynchburg, and there ordered sterilized.

The Virginia law allowing the procedure had been passed in 1924 and responded to 50 years of scholarly debate over whether certain social problems, including shiftlessness, poverty, and prostitution, were inherited and ultimately could be eliminated through selective sterilization...

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