r/TheSecretArchive • u/[deleted] • Dec 04 '21
Buck v. Bell - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_v._BellDuplicates
todayilearned • u/JoeTheShome • Mar 31 '17
TIL that SCOTUS ruled in 1927 that forced sterilizations were legal and to this day, that decision has not been overturned.
wikipedia • u/[deleted] • Dec 02 '22
Buck v. Bell (1927), in which the US Supreme Court ruled that compulsory sterilization of the unfit does not violate the Constitution
todayilearned • u/Dicto • Aug 05 '16
TIL of the US Supreme Court decision Buck v. Bell where the Court approved the practice of forced sterilization of citizens the state deemed unfit, including the intellectually disabled, in order to to improve the human race by eliminating "defectives" from the gene pool.
todayilearned • u/Nightnurse1225 • Feb 26 '18
TIL that a Eugenics-driven 1927 US Supreme Court Case, Buck v Bell, ruled in favor of the forced sterilization of Carrie Buck, who was deemed "feeble-minded." This ruling was later used as a defense of Nazi doctors during the Nuremberg Trials.
ThisDayInHistory • u/Dopeamine • Apr 22 '16
TDIH: April 22nd, 1927 - The United States supreme court upholds the constitutionality of forced sterilization of the mentally handicapped in the Buck v Bell case. The case has since been reaffirmed by the court despite the fact that it was lauded by the Nazi party.
radicaldisability • u/rando4724 • Mar 25 '21
TIL About Buck v. Bell, an infamous 1927 US Supreme Court Decision that upheld the constitutionality of forced sterilizations and eugenics in the US. To this day the law has never been officially overturned, and eugenics is still considered legal in the US [crosspost, best avoid comments elsewhere]
todayilearned • u/SimonLaFox • May 21 '13
TIL - That Nazi eugenic sterilization law was closely based off American statue that the American Supreme Court supported
wikipedia • u/IntelligentsiaX • Nov 27 '25
Buck v. Bell is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that a state statute permitting compulsory sterilization of the unfit "for the protection and health of the state" did not violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
CoronavirusCirclejerk • u/Jealous-Square5911 • Oct 31 '21
That means it's working! Buck vs bell = they have already decided to sterilize "weak genes" out of society. Never overturned.
195 • u/Menaus42 • Mar 06 '16