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226 one of the more than two dozen state eugenics laws
Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200, May 2, 1927.
227 the young woman, Carrie Buck, had already had a child
University of Virginia-Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, "Carrie Buck, Virginias Test Case," 2004, http://www.hsl.virginia.edu/historical/eugenics/3-buckvbell.cfm.
228 "Three generations of imbeciles are enough"
Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200, May 2, 1927.
229 which has never been overturned
Dan Vergano, "Re-Examining Supreme Court Support for Sterilization," USA Today, November 19, 2008.
230 had been forcibly sterilized
Stephen Jay Gould, "Carrie Bucks Daughter," Natural History, July 1985.
231 Buck was lucid and of normal intelligence
Ibid.
232 who had been raped by a nephew of one of her foster parents
"Carrie Buck, Virginias Test Case."
233 to avoid what they feared would otherwise be a scandal
Vergano, "Re-Examining Supreme Court Support for Sterilization."
234 had syphilis and was unmarried when she gave birth to Carrie
"Carrie Buck, Virginias Test Case."
235 declared Buck "congenitally and incurably defective"
Vergano, "Re-Examining Supreme Court Support for Sterilization."
236 "The fix was in"
Ibid.
237 "shiftless, ignorant, and worthless"
"Carrie Buck, Virginias Test Case."
238 "There is a look about it that is not quite normal"
Ibid.
239 was taken from her family and given to the family of Carries rapist
Vergano, "Re-Examining Supreme Court Support for Sterilization."
240 Carries sister, Doris, was also sterilized at the same inst.i.tution
Gould, "Carrie Bucks Daughter."
241 which was the basis for the Virginia statute upheld
Alex Wellerstein, "Harry Laughlins Model Eugenical Sterilization Law. "
242 President Woodrow Wilson
Vergano, "Re-Examining Supreme Court Support for Sterilization."