Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Buck vs Bell

"In 1927 the United States Supreme Court upheld a Virginia statute that provided from eugenic sterilization for people considered genetically unfit. The court decided, that liver Wendell Holmes Jr included the infamous phrase, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough." Upholding Virginia's sterilization statute provided the green light for similar laws in 30 states, under which an estimated 65,000 Americans were sterilized without their own consent or that of a family member. Indiana passed the first eugenic sterilization statute in 1907, this and other early laws were legally flawed and didn't meet the challenge of stat court test.  To remedy this situation, Harry Laughlin of the Eugenics Record Office (ERO) at Cold Spring Harbor designed a model eugenic law that was reviewed by legal experts. The Virginia statute of 1924 was closely based on this model."


 http://eugenicsarchive.org/html/eugenics/static/themes/39.html




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