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It is called eugenic sterilization. There have been court cases such as Buck v Bell where courts have upheld this. Justice Holmes said, “The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.”

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