The Surgical Solution: A History of Involuntary Sterilization in the United States
Philip R. Reilly It would be better for the whole world if society could prevent clearly unfit individuals from perpetuating their species, rather than wait until the degenerate offspring are extinct through crime, or let them starve to death through their imbecility.”
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in a 1927 Virginia Supreme Court decision upholding Virginia's forced sterilization law
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