Playing God in the Elm City
May 2, 1927, was a day that called for celebration on Church Street.
That day, the future of Carrie Buck's body was in the hands of nine men in black robes.
Buck was the mentally-challenged daughter of a mentally-challenged mother and the mother of a mentally-challenged child. On this day, she was pleading with the U.S. Supreme Court to protect her from being sterilized against her will. Buck's lawyers said she had the right to "bodily integrity" and could not be forcibly operated on by the state.
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes was less than...
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