![]() In his new book, Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck, journalist Adam Cohen asserts that Carrie Buck, the subject of the 1927 Supreme Court case Buck v. Proponents of the practice like Priddy used the prospect of disability to justify sterilizing anyone doctors and state institution superintendents decided to–disabled people, people of color, sex workers, women, low-income people, or a combination of those, for the most part. The tragedy of eugenics is that anyone, disabled or not, lost their right to choose if they wanted children. Albert Priddy and John Bell–used the prospect of disability to justify it. The tragedy of eugenics is that individuals–eugenicists such as Harry Laughlin and state institution superintendents like Drs. The tragedy of eugenics is that it happened at all. ![]() ![]() The tragedy of eugenics is not that it happened to ostensibly non-disabled people. ![]()
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