The Buck v. Bail court case during 1920's, is concreted to be one of the worst rulings of the Supreme Court in the history of American law. During the 1920’s court case in Virginia, the Supreme Court supported sterilization of so-called mental defectives or imbeciles American’s. The First person who was reported to undergo sterilization was a young poor woman by the name of Carrie Buck. According to the Buck v. Bail video Carrie Buck was confined in the Virginia State colony for the epileptics and the feeble-minded though she was neither epileptic nor mentally disabled, eight judges ruled that the state of Virginia had the right to sterilize her, her mother Emma and as well as her Daughter Vivienne (Democracy Now). Sterilization blocks
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This Immigration Act in 1924 was an attempt that scientist and others alike wanted to use in the hopes that by sterilizing numerous American citizens was a way for them to improve the genetic quality of the American population. Author Adam Cohen who wrote Im⸱be⸱ciles The Supreme Court, American Eugenics and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck appeared in the Buck v. Bail video where he spoke in details about Carrie Buck background story and the steps that lead to the reason why Carrie was sterilized. According to Cohen he stated: Carrie was a young woman who was growing up in Charlottesville Virginia being raised by a single mother, back then there was a belief that it was better off to take poor children away from their parents and put them into middle-class homes; Carrie was treated very badly in the foster family she wasn’t allow to call her parents and she did a lot of housekeeping for the family, Carrie was rented out to the neighbors and one summer she was raped by the nephew of her foster mother; Carrie became pregnant out of wedlock and rather than helping her with the pregnancy, they decide to get her declared epileptic and feeble-minded though she was neither and she was shipped off to the colony for epileptic and feeble-minded outside Lynchburg Virginia (Democracy …show more content…
Carrie was given a lawyer who was supposed to fight for her rights, however, her lawyer was a former chairman of the colony that believed in epileptics and feeble minds who wanted Carrie to be Sterilized, the court ruled yes which allowed Carrie to be Sterilized against her will. There was another video called War on the Weak: Eugenics in America that talked about the Eugenics movement in the United States. In the 20th century, where industrialization was rapidly growing many urban social cities was defined with goals for a civilization free of violence, disease, and mental illnesses. According to the War on the Weak video, Geneticists of the age could prove, through the use of human pedigrees and their knowledge of plant and animal genetics that degeneracy was an inheritable trait, it seemed only right if a society free of mental and physical ailments; free of violence and crime, illiteracy and foolishness; it seemed only right to end the reproductive capabilities of people expressing these traits (liamdunaway's channel). The Eugenics movement played a significant role in the history of America which resulted in American’s being unwilling to make social changes and people who lived in the upper-class cities of the united stated were fearful of its laboring
This Immigration Act in 1924 was an attempt that scientist and others alike wanted to use in the hopes that by sterilizing numerous American citizens was a way for them to improve the genetic quality of the American population. Author Adam Cohen who wrote Im⸱be⸱ciles The Supreme Court, American Eugenics and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck appeared in the Buck v. Bail video where he spoke in details about Carrie Buck background story and the steps that lead to the reason why Carrie was sterilized. According to Cohen he stated: Carrie was a young woman who was growing up in Charlottesville Virginia being raised by a single mother, back then there was a belief that it was better off to take poor children away from their parents and put them into middle-class homes; Carrie was treated very badly in the foster family she wasn’t allow to call her parents and she did a lot of housekeeping for the family, Carrie was rented out to the neighbors and one summer she was raped by the nephew of her foster mother; Carrie became pregnant out of wedlock and rather than helping her with the pregnancy, they decide to get her declared epileptic and feeble-minded though she was neither and she was shipped off to the colony for epileptic and feeble-minded outside Lynchburg Virginia (Democracy …show more content…
Carrie was given a lawyer who was supposed to fight for her rights, however, her lawyer was a former chairman of the colony that believed in epileptics and feeble minds who wanted Carrie to be Sterilized, the court ruled yes which allowed Carrie to be Sterilized against her will. There was another video called War on the Weak: Eugenics in America that talked about the Eugenics movement in the United States. In the 20th century, where industrialization was rapidly growing many urban social cities was defined with goals for a civilization free of violence, disease, and mental illnesses. According to the War on the Weak video, Geneticists of the age could prove, through the use of human pedigrees and their knowledge of plant and animal genetics that degeneracy was an inheritable trait, it seemed only right if a society free of mental and physical ailments; free of violence and crime, illiteracy and foolishness; it seemed only right to end the reproductive capabilities of people expressing these traits (liamdunaway's channel). The Eugenics movement played a significant role in the history of America which resulted in American’s being unwilling to make social changes and people who lived in the upper-class cities of the united stated were fearful of its laboring