had never read about the eugenics movement in the states...
By 1945 over 45,000 mentally ill individuals in the United States had been
forcibly sterilized.
Some states sterilized "imbeciles" for much of the 20th century. The
U.S. Supreme Court ruled in
the
1927 Buck v. Bell case that the state of
Virginia could sterilize those it
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