Buck v. Bell was a legal ruling that legalized government sterilization of American citizens. the United States Supreme Court, ruled a state law permitting compulsory sterilization for the protection and health of the state did not violate the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The decision was seen as an endorsement of negative eugenics—the attempt to improve the human race by eliminating “defectives” from the gene pool. The Supreme Court has never expressly overturned Buck v. Bell.

Miss Carrie Buck was 18 years old and had the mental age of 9. Her 52 year old mother had a mental age of 8. Dr. Bell wanted to sterilize Carrie. The Liberal Court ruled he could.
Uber Liberal judge Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote: “three generations of imbeciles is enough.”


The Virginia law which the ruling of Buck v. Bell supported was designed in part by the eugenicist Harry H. Laughlin, superintendent of Charles Benedict Davenport’s Eugenics Record Office in Cold Spring Harbor, New Laughlin saw the need to create a “Model Law”which could withstand a test of constitutional scrutiny, clearing the way for future sterilization operations.

Adolf Hitler closely modelled his Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring on Laughlin’s “Model Law”. The Third Reich held Laughlin in such regard that they arranged for him to receive an honorary doctorate from Heidelberg University in 1936. At the Nuremberg trials after World War II, Nazi doctors explicitly cited Holmes’s opinion in Buck v. Bell as part of their defense. A horrible American Sterilization law that was supported by Liberal judges on the Supreme Court. Disgusting.  

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