Eugenics won, and Carrie Buck was the victim. The historic Buck v. Bell case legitimized the forced sterilization of Buck under a Virginia state statute. Their reasoning — Buck was “feebleminded.” She ...

Carrie Buck is an intellectually-disabled young ... She is also threatened with sterilization so she won't have any more children who might also be disabled.

Bell — which upheld the sterilization of women in the state of Virginia — was even cited in defense of Nazi judges during the Nuremberg War Trials. Carrie Buck became pregnant at age 16.