California Court Decides Adult DD Patient May Be Sterilized
APRIL 5, 1999 VOLUME 6, NUMBER 40 In 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court issued one of its most famously wrong-headed opinions. Buck v. Bell dealt with whether Carrie Buck, who had been committed to the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble Minded, had the right to oppose an order directing that she be sterilized. The […]