Buck v. Bell was a U.S. Supreme Court case about Carrie Buck, the plaintiff, and a Virginia law that allowed for the compulsory sterilization of those deemed “feebleminded.” In 1927 the Supreme Court upheld (8–1) the constitutionality of compulsory eugenics-based sterilization laws. The Court’s ruling in the case is often cited as one of the worst in its history.
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