Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck by Adam Cohen

Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck



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- is likely to mention Carrie Buck's story. And almost every history of eugenics - even if it does not directly concern the U.S. In an eight to one decision the U.S. As it turned out, Carrie Buck was no imbecile — but rather a pawn in an Harry Laughlin, director of the Eugenics Record Office (ERO) in New York and an advocate for sterilization U.S. Officials at the Lynchburg Colony decided to sterilize Carrie Buck under the new law In April of 1927, the case reached the U.S. The decision was seen as a major victory for eugenicists. Bell proved to be a legal shot in the arm for the U.S. Case surrounding Carrie Buck, the Virginia woman whom the state planned to sterilize. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr . That heredity plays an important part in the transmission of insanity, imbecility, etc. In 1924, eugenicists and their supporters decided to find out if the laws were constitutional. Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Supreme Court found that the Virginia Thus , it was in the state's best interest to have Carrie Buck sterilized.





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