Feeble-minded

attempted to have inheritable desirable traits. These are qualities that individuals in the public eye at the time considered "unfit". They incorporate the “unfit” to be alcoholics, being a criminal or prostitutes, those with a mental impairment, feeble minded and those with physical impairments. To battle this, individuals accepted that the choice to procreate ought to be controlled by more "fit" human. Each nation, at some point has undergone a pessimistic stage. United States of America is no different

appearance from the biological idea to the classification of a person. Similarly, the Bucks family 's illegitimacy and feeble-mindedness was thought of as biological and assumed that any offspring would be classified as illegitimate and feeble minded as well. There was later proof that neither Emma, Carrie, nor Vivian were feeble-minded, which tarnished the idea that their "feeble-mindedness was the fault of genetics. It is just what is coupled with their category as being illegitimate children and

her test revealed that she had the mind of an eight year old. Carrie and her mother were sent to the Colony for the Epileptic and Feebleminded (Buck v. Bell, 2006). Dr. Albert Priddy was the superintendent of the State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded at Lynchburg he supported the population through the eugenics

that were feeble minded or have epilepsy. As Carrie’s story unfolds you will see not only is feeble minded a broad term She was wronged not only on the merits of the case, but in the process of justice. Carrie Buck was placed in a home called Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded alongside her mother. Now at the time there were other states practicing eugenics. This was the first case to challenge Virginia’s 1924 ruling allowing it. Carrie and her mom were labeled feeble minded and promiscuous

Buck vs. Bell During the twentieth century, the United States Supreme Court passed laws that sparked a time where grotesque discrimination and outright injustice towards all races and gender ran amuck. The United States Supreme court supported a claim that those who were deemed “feebleminded” were a hazard to society, and to protect the nation’s gene pool by keeping the “lesser classes” from reproducing, they needed to be sterilized. Carrie Buck, notoriously known for her Case against the supreme

Do people with mental illness and in low socio-economic classes deserve to have children? In the 1927 Supreme Court case known as Buck v. Bell (1927), the answer was no. Dr. John Bell was a man who advocated for eugenics. Carrie Buck was a “feeble minded” woman. Eugenics is the serialization or eliminated of a person or race for a trait they share. Using this method, humanity would grow stronger as the weak were weeded out. This was a new and popular idea around the turn of the 20th century. For

Buck v. Bell helps to illustrate the abuse of power argument given in the preceding paragraphs. Classified as a feeble-minded individual, Carrie was now the state’s responsibility. This responsibility meant caring for her and her needs, and inflicting no harm to her. As required by the feminist care ethics approach, the relationship between Carrie Buck and the state had

The question of whether or not people with intellectual disabilities should bear children is nothing new. Court ordered sterilizations of the intellectually disabled were commonly practiced during the first half of the 20th century as eugenics movements swept the globe. It was assumed that people who had intellectual disabilities were not capable of being good parents and would conceive children who also had a disability. This population of people was not desirable and fell victim of eugenics, which

lawsuit that entailed state-enforced eugenic sterilization for individuals regarded feebleminded or somehow genetically substandard. Carrie Buck, the plaintiff, together with her mother had been devoted to the Virginia Colony of Epileptics and Feeble Minded in Virginia (Eugenics Archive, n.d.). The two were judged to be genetically inferior or feebleminded and immoral since they had children out of wedlock. Moreover, Carrie Buck’s child

who were sterilized tried to fight against the crime committed against them. In Buck v. Bell, 1927 the court ruled in favor of the sterilization of Carrie Buck. She was said to have came from a feeble minded mother and she was called feeble minded as well by Dr. Priddy of Virginia State Colony of Feeble Minded where she was a patient. Her mother was said to be immoral and was a prostitute. Carrie was adopted by another family and was raped by her cousin and was viewed as promiscuous, therefore sent