... officials to sterilize institutionalized retarded persons whom a physician determined likely to become the parent of children with similar defects (Buck v. Bell 1927). The court case was an appeal by Carrie Buck asking for a reversal of her sterilization sentence handed down by a Virginia court. Carrie Buck was accused of being "feebleminded" because she had given birth to a child out of wedlock. Supreme Court Justice ... Oliver Wendell Homes declared that "three generations of imbeciles are enough" during the Buck v. Bell case, which upheld the Virginia court ruling (The Image Archive ...

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