...(1927), Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote his stinging opinion upholding sterilization for eugenic purposes: It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for the crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly...

...New Horizon Press, 1989); Stephen Jay Gould, Carrie Hack's r. 2 Constitutional Commentary 331 (1985). vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough."11 The Court was presented with an opportunity to reconsider Buck in 1942, just four years...

...but the decision contains another argument raised by Justice Holmes that is less frequently quoted: "The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes."76 According to Holmes, the same principle that justifies compulsory vaccination — that is,...

...State for these lesser sacrifices . . . in order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence. . . . The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting Fallopian tubes." He concluded with an infamous and much-quoted statement: "Three generations of imbeciles...

...Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, a giant of American jurisprudence, wrote in Buck v. Bell: "It is better for all the world if, instead of waiting...Fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough."12 Eugenic theories motivated the US Immigration Restriction Act of 1924, which discriminated...

...often not felt to be such by those concerned, in order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence. It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting...Fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.37 With the Buck decision in hand, eugenicists and their companions in state legislatures could...

...often not felt to be such by those concerned, in order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence. It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting...Fallopian tubes — Three generations of imbeciles is enough. US Supreme Court Justice 0liver Wendell Holmes, writing in the Buck v. Bell decision, 1927...

...criminal, especially the feebleminded poor. Thus the American Supreme Court ruled mBuckv. Bell (1926) It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting...broad enough to cover cutting the fallopian tubes. (Quoted in Williams. 1991:281) What has been ignored in these policies are the American studies showing...

...evidence. Then I eventually came upon one of the most repugnant part of his opinion "it is better for the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate...Fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough". "Eugenics proclaims that both physical and mental problems are primarily caused by inferior...

...these lesser sacrifices [...] in order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence. It is better for the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate...Fallopian tubes [...] Three generations of imbeciles are enough" (p. 207). For an analysis of American regulations, see, eg, BURGDORP and BURGDORF, "The Wicked...