My my, the things that can happen in democracies: Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927), is a decision of the United States Supreme Court, written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in which the Court ruled that a state statute permitting compulsory sterilization of the unfit, including the intellectually disabled, for the protection and health of the state did not violate the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Posted on: Mon, 05 May 2014 04:00:57 +0000
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