The main person in this case was named Carrie Buck; she was a feebleminded woman who was committed to a state mental institution. She was a resident of the state of Virginia, which in 1924, this same state passed a statute that authorized the superintendants of mental institutions to order the sterilization of people that suffer with hereditary
The main person in this case was named Carrie Buck; she was a feebleminded woman who was committed to a state mental institution. She was a resident of the state of Virginia, which in 1924, this same state passed a statute that authorized the superintendants of mental institutions to order the sterilization of people that suffer with hereditary