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In 1907, [[Indiana]] became the first of more than thirty states to adopt legislation aimed at compulsory sterilization of certain  

In 1907, [[Indiana]] became the first of more than thirty states to adopt legislation aimed at compulsory sterilization of certain  

individuals.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20090916075528/http://www.in.gov/judiciary/citc/cle/eugenics/index.html "'Three generations of imbeciles are enough': reflections on 100 years of eugenics in Indiana"] (April 11, 2007).  IndianaCourts website, Supreme Court, Courts in the Classroom, Indiana Supreme Court Legal History Lecture Series.  Retrieved on September 15, 2014 from September 16, 2009 archive at Internet Archive</ref> Although the law was overturned by the [[Indiana Supreme Court]] in 1921,<ref> [http://web.archive.org/web/20081001183035/http://www.bioethics.iupui.edu/Eugenics/SMith%20vs%20Williams.pdf "Williams v. Smith"] (1921). 131 ''Northeast Reporter'' 2 (Ind.).  Retrieved from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Center for Bioethics website on September 15, 2014 from October 1, 2008 archive at Internet Archive,</ref> the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] upheld the constitutionality of a Virginia Law allowing for the [[Buck v. Bell|compulsory sterilization]] of patients of state mental institutions in 1927; it was in writing this opinion that Justice [[Oliver Wendell Holmes]] Jr. coined the phrase "three generations of imbeciles are enough."<ref>{{harvnb|Larson|2004|p=194-195}} Citing [[Buck v. Bell]] 274 U.S. 200, 205 (1927).</ref>

individuals.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20090916075528/http://www.in.gov/judiciary/citc/cle/eugenics/index.html "'Three generations of imbeciles are enough': reflections on 100 years of eugenics in Indiana"] (April 11, 2007).  IndianaCourts website, Supreme Court, Courts in the Classroom, Indiana Supreme Court Legal History Lecture Series.  Retrieved on September 15, 2014 from September 16, 2009 archive at Internet Archive</ref> Although the law was overturned by the [[Indiana Supreme Court]] in 1921,<ref>Supreme Court of Indiana (May 11, 1921). [http://web.archive.org/web/20081001183035/http://www.bioethics.iupui.edu/Eugenics/SMith%20vs%20Williams.pdf "Williams v. Smith"]. ''Northeast Reporter'', Indiana edition, vol. 131, p. 2.  Retrieved from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Center for Bioethics website on September 15, 2014 from October 1, 2008 archive at Internet Archive.</ref> the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] upheld the constitutionality of a Virginia Law allowing for the [[Buck v. Bell|compulsory sterilization]] of patients of state mental institutions in 1927; it was in writing this opinion that Justice [[Oliver Wendell Holmes]] Jr. coined the phrase "three generations of imbeciles are enough."<ref>{{harvnb|Larson|2004|p=194-195}} Citing [[Buck v. Bell]] 274 U.S. 200, 205 (1927).</ref>

[[Nazi Germany]] under [[Adolf Hitler]] was infamous for eugenics programs which attempted to maintain a "pure" German race through a series of programs that ran under the banner of "[[racial hygiene]]". Among other activities, the Nazis performed extensive experimentation on live human beings to test their genetic theories, ranging from simple measurement of physical characteristics to the horrific experiments carried out by [[Josef Mengele]] for [[Otmar von Verschuer]] on twins in the concentration camps. During the 1930s and 1940s, the Nazi regime forcibly sterilized hundreds of thousands of people whom they viewed as mentally and physically "unfit", an estimated 400,000 between 1934 and 1937. The scale of the Nazi program prompted American eugenics advocates to seek an expansion of their program, with one complaining that "the Germans are beating us at our own game".<ref>Quoted in Selgelid, Michael J. 2000. Neugenics? ''Monash Bioethics Review'' 19 (4):9-33</ref> The Nazis went further, however, killing tens of thousands of the institutionalized disabled through compulsory "[[euthanasia]]" programs.<ref>The Nazi eugenics policies are discussed in a number of sources. A few of the more definitive ones are Robert Proctor, ''Racial hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis'' (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988) and Dieter Kuntz, ed., ''Deadly medicine: creating the master race'' (Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2004) ([http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/deadlymedicine/ online exhibit]). On the development of the [[racial hygiene]] movement before National Socialism, see Paul Weindling, ''Health, race and German politics between national unification and Nazism, 1870-1945'' (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989).</ref>

[[Nazi Germany]] under [[Adolf Hitler]] was infamous for eugenics programs which attempted to maintain a "pure" German race through a series of programs that ran under the banner of "[[racial hygiene]]". Among other activities, the Nazis performed extensive experimentation on live human beings to test their genetic theories, ranging from simple measurement of physical characteristics to the horrific experiments carried out by [[Josef Mengele]] for [[Otmar von Verschuer]] on twins in the concentration camps. During the 1930s and 1940s, the Nazi regime forcibly sterilized hundreds of thousands of people whom they viewed as mentally and physically "unfit", an estimated 400,000 between 1934 and 1937. The scale of the Nazi program prompted American eugenics advocates to seek an expansion of their program, with one complaining that "the Germans are beating us at our own game".<ref>Quoted in Selgelid, Michael J. 2000. Neugenics? ''Monash Bioethics Review'' 19 (4):9-33</ref> The Nazis went further, however, killing tens of thousands of the institutionalized disabled through compulsory "[[euthanasia]]" programs.<ref>The Nazi eugenics policies are discussed in a number of sources. A few of the more definitive ones are Robert Proctor, ''Racial hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis'' (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988) and Dieter Kuntz, ed., ''Deadly medicine: creating the master race'' (Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2004) ([http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/deadlymedicine/ online exhibit]). On the development of the [[racial hygiene]] movement before National Socialism, see Paul Weindling, ''Health, race and German politics between national unification and Nazism, 1870-1945'' (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989).</ref>