Paper instructions:
Summarize the case, define the eugenic movement, and discuss its role in this case. Also, address
Oliver Wendell Holmes’s statement, “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.” What happened to eugenics, particularly enforced sterilization, in the years following the Supreme Court’s findings
in the Buck v. Bell case? What is the current legal status of enforced sterilization in the U.S.?
 Is the study of genetics, especially heredity, sufficiently predictable to justify using it to make decisions such as
those imposed on Carrie Buck? Should genetics be used as the basis for any type of legal decision? Support your
answers.