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S2 Ep11: Buck v. Bell: When the Courts Decided Who Could Have Kids - Publication Date |
- Mar 28, 2022
- Episode Duration |
- 00:39:31
A young woman named Carrie Buck was not only deemed too unfit to raise her daughter in 1927, but the U.S. Supreme Court declared she was too stupid to procreate, period. And that decision, sparked by the so-called eugenics movement, paved the way for hundreds of thousands of people to be sterilized through the 1970s.
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