This story emerges as part of the legacy of Planned Parenthood, the main driving force for eugenics in this country.
http://news.yahoo.com/virginia-compensate-victims-forced-sterilizations-235844161.html
In Buck vs. Bell that allowed the sterilization program, from the mind of the great progressive, Supreme Court Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., came this, writing for the 8-1 majority:
“We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives. It would be strange if it could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the State for these lesser sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned, to prevent our being swamped with incompetence. It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. […] Three generations of imbeciles are enough.[29]”
I wonder what went through his mind as he faced his Creator, after his death, and realized that he had to answer for allowing these things to happen to those ‘imbeciles’ whom the Creator counted as his equal in the Eternal Scheme of things. It must bother people like Holmes and progressives to realize that anyone counts as their equal.
