Part 2: Buck v. Bell: SCOTUS Case That Led to Forced Sterilization of 70,000 & Inspired the Nazis
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มี.ค. 2016
- democracynow.org - As President Obama nominates centrist Judge Merrick Garland to replace late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, we take a look at what’s been described as one of the worst Supreme Court rulings in history. In the 1927 case Buck v. Bell, the court upheld a statute that enabled the state of Virginia to sterilize so-called mental defectives or imbeciles. The person in question was Carrie Buck, a poor, young woman then confined in the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and the Feebleminded, though she was neither epileptic nor mentally disabled. In the landmark decision, eight judges ruled that the state of Virginia had the right to sterilize her. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote the majority opinion concluding, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough." The decision resulted in 60,000 to 70,000 sterilizations of Americans considered "unfit" to reproduce. At the Nuremberg trials, lawyers for Nazi scientists cited the opinion in defense of their actions. We speak to Adam Cohen, author of "Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck."
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Hey guys and girls at Democracy Now, thanks for this piece and could you pass on to Mr Cohen some good news ? I'm in Australia & after watching this I proceeded to my library and they agreed to purchase this publication. I look forward to reading it. Thanks again.
***** Perhaps I'd like to share the publication with others and not be stingy. The public library makes this possible.
***** why not just get the library to purchase it ? I've no need to boost my standing. I pay my taxes and use my library.
“No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is. - ” Eduardo Galeno
Thank you Amy for this story...Even F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about it in "The Great Gatsby" in 1925.... That tells me it was somewhat popular at the time..
1988 I fled a hospital when a doctor was trying to pressure me to sign tubal ligation papers . It never stopped!
I knew a woman from Ohio who’d been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. When she was a teen she was sent to a psychiatric hospital probably because she wasn’t diagnosed yet or taking medications for it yet. She wanted children so bad. She loved babies so much. But she had undergone a forced total hysterectomy. She could never have children. I hope she and her husband decided to adopt.
@florenomorence1492 The Manic Hispanic?
Whoopy do $25000 doesn't in anyway compensate them for that loss what a disgrace
....and now we have Bill Gates and his Eugenics Foundation ....
I wonder if he’s connected to one of them
$25,000 is not enough
This is why I am so terrified of this new “mental illness” nonsense
Wow. I wouldn't mind reading his book.
***** I think I might
I'll check out my local book store first.
***** yup i like to support local businesses
The next eugenics movement will be based on improving genetics through gene technology.
There would be nothing immoral about that either and people could actually have a say in it this time
Did the people that supported this idea and carried it out get put on trial? We should have put the american doctors and legislators on trial and sentenced them to life in prison.
That’s science for ya.
Prevention of Sexual Assault, Mandatory Classes, for boys 6th thru 12th, grade!!!!!
Lovely Story...
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. (Genesis 1:28) These doctors, politicians and judges were going against God.
6:37 SCOTUS Pierce Butler was the lone dissenter. I'll answer the question for this expert.
Nothing wrong with eugenics it’s how things are carried out is the problem