"The judgement finds... that Carrie Buck 'is the probable potential parent of socially inadequate offspring, likewise afflicted that she may be sexually sterilized without deteriment to her general heawlth and that her welfare and that of society will be promoted by her sterilization," (2)

"Prior to Buck v. Bell, the sterilization laws of seven states had been struck down by the courts, mostly for procedural reasons, but the Virginia statute under which Carrie Buck was to lose her ability to have children steered a prudent course around these reefs..." (3)

"States began attempting to stem reproduction among the "unfit" by segregating them into asylums or prisons or enacted laws forbidding certain categories of people to marry, but the policy focus quicll;y shifted toward steriliation, which proved less expensive and more effective... By the 1930s, more than thirty sttaes had passed involuntary eugenic sterilization laws, typically applied ot the insane, "idiots and imbeciles," and criminals." (3)

"This case raised the question of the constitutionality of the Virginia statute which provided for the sterilization of feeble minded and insane persons in certain cases." (1)

"After the revolution of emancipation was achieved, that the ethos sensitized the bulk of a heterogeneous populatino to the pressing need for democratic and humanistic social reform." (404)

"Klan membership included numerous physicians, nurses, and public health reformers who sought to enforce white supremacy within the medical professions and to influence public health policy to better reflect the Klan's racial and reproductive ideologies." (7)