... as a positive solution for many disabled people. The most notorious American court case that paved the path for future sterilization of disabled individuals was the famous Buck verses Bell Supreme court lawsuit. On May 2, 1927, the United States Supreme Court upheld a Virginia statute that provided for: the eugenic sterilization for people considered genetically unfit. The Court's decision, delivered by Oliver Wendell Holmes, ... person is sterilized it becomes much easier to repeat the trend, and as we become desensitized to the implications of sterilization, the criteria in which we de...

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