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226 one of the more than two dozen state eugenics laws

Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200, May 2, 1927.

227 the young woman, Carrie Buck, had already had a child

University of Virginia-Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, "Carrie Buck, Virginia's Test Case," 2004, http://www.hsl.virginia.edu/historical/eugenics/3-buckvbell.cfm.

228 "Three generations of imbeciles are enough"

Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200, May 2, 1927.

229 which has never been overturned

Dan Vergano, "Re-Examining Supreme Court Support for Sterilization," USA Today, November 19, 2008.

230 had been forcibly sterilized

Stephen Jay Gould, "Carrie Buck's Daughter," Natural History, July 1985.

231 Buck was lucid and of normal intelligence

Ibid.

232 who had been raped by a nephew of one of her foster parents

"Carrie Buck, Virginia's Test Case."

233 to avoid what they feared would otherwise be a scandal

Vergano, "Re-Examining Supreme Court Support for Sterilization."

234 had syphilis and was unmarried when she gave birth to Carrie

"Carrie Buck, Virginia's Test Case."

235 declared Buck "congenitally and incurably defective"

Vergano, "Re-Examining Supreme Court Support for Sterilization."

236 "The fix was in"

Ibid.

237 "s.h.i.+ftless, ignorant, and worthless"

"Carrie Buck, Virginia's Test Case."

238 "There is a look about it that is not quite normal"

Ibid.

239 was taken from her family and given to the family of Carrie's rapist

Vergano, "Re-Examining Supreme Court Support for Sterilization."

240 Carrie's sister, Doris, was also sterilized at the same inst.i.tution

Gould, "Carrie Buck's Daughter."

241 which was the basis for the Virginia statute upheld

Alex Wellerstein, "Harry Laughlin's 'Model Eugenical Sterilization Law.' "

242 President Woodrow Wilson

Vergano, "Re-Examining Supreme Court Support for Sterilization."