Following her commitment to the Virginia State Colony, Carrie would become the plaintiff of Buck v. Bell, representing the agrument that no person should be sterilized against their will. The case made it to the Supreme Court. To Holmes, Carrie—young, unwed, supposedly promiscuous and mentally deficient—represented a vision of America that could not be allowed to continue, and so he ruled in favor of eugenicist John Bell, the superintendent of the colony. There was only one dissenting opinion, so Carrie was sterilized. The case was cited by the Nazis as they developed their own eugenics
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