Enough
Carrie Buck is a feeble minded white woman who was committed to the
State Colony above mentioned in due form. She is the daughter of a
feeble minded mother in the same institution, and the mother of an
illegitimate feeble minded child. She was eighteen years old at the time
of the trial of her case...
An Act of Virginia, approved March 20, 1924, recites that the health of the patient and the welfare of society may be promoted in certain cases by the sterilization of mental defectives...
It is better for all the world if, instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes...Three generations of imbeciles are enough.
--Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927)
An Act of Virginia, approved March 20, 1924, recites that the health of the patient and the welfare of society may be promoted in certain cases by the sterilization of mental defectives...
It is better for all the world if, instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes...Three generations of imbeciles are enough.
--Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927)
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