WEAK-MINDED PARENTS
IMPORTANT DECISION BY I'.S. sitrkmi: court Xi:\V YORK, May 2. The Washington Supreme Cbvirl has unanimously upheld tho legality of the new Vivpiuin Hu'&enics Law, whicli authorises llip sterilisation of feebleminded persons in order I" pi'PVPiit .the birth ol' mi fit babies. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes., wlio read the decision, referred, as a justi(ti'nlion for sterilisation to the fa el Ilial youflis were compelled to <lie in war Cor the good of their country, and ndded, "II is better to prevent (lie birth of tbe feeble-minded tlian lo wail' and execute their offspring for crime." The ease entne before the Supremo Court as an appeal against the decision of the Virginia, authorities to sterilise a woman named Carrie ■l'.nek, 20. The daughter of a feebleminded mother, Mrs. I'.uek has a ■mental age of nine years, and recently gave birtli to a baby, after which 'she was sent to a home for the feebleminded. Virginia officials ran now perform en operation, and subsequently release Mrs. Buck.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16375, 24 June 1927, Page 5
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