Describe the case of Buck v. Bell. What issues were at stake?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. The issue at the center of the case of Buck v. Bell was the constitutionality of compulsory sterilization laws.
2. Proponents of such laws selected the case of Carrie Buck to push all the way to the Supreme Court.
3. The Buck case was selected, in part, because Buck was white.
4. Carrie Buck was raped and became pregnant; as a result, she was sent to a state institution for the feebleminded.
5. Buck was labeled as feebleminded because she had borne a child out of wedlock and was therefore deemed morally unfit for parenthood.
6. Buck was sterilized in 1927.
7. Despite a lack of evidence that Buck had below-normal intelligence, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of compulsory sterilization laws.
8. A California law passed in the wake of the Buck case was used as a model for Nazi sterilization policies.
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