Buck v. Bell (1927) Nonconsensual Reproductive Sterilization

Audio of the 1927 opinion of the Court in Buck v. Bell.

The question before the Court in this case was whether a 1924 Virginia sterilization law denied Carrie Buck the right to due process of the law and the equal protection of the law provided by the Fourteenth Amendment.

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