Well, honestly most U.S. states did this thing pretty regularly to the "mentally unfit" at least as far back as the 1920's. See Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927) and the opinion by Oliver Wendall Holmes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_v._Bell
Margaret Sanger and the Planned Parenthood crowd were notorious racists and genetic purity advocates, though her rep has been carefully sanitized for modern consumption. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger
Well, honestly most U.S. states did this thing pretty regularly to the "mentally unfit" at least as far back as the 1920's. See Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927) and the opinion by Oliver Wendall Holmes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_v._Bell
ReplyDeleteMargaret Sanger and the Planned Parenthood crowd were notorious racists and genetic purity advocates, though her rep has been carefully sanitized for modern consumption. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger