Same logic, same legal principle, in a SCROTUS decision that has not been directly reversed.
If you grant the premise that the state can inoculate you against your will, then you grant the premise that the state can sterilize you against your will.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, writing for the 8-1 majority in Buck v Bell.We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives. It would be strange if it could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the State for these lesser sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned, to prevent our being swamped with incompetence.
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.
The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes.
Three generations of imbeciles are enough.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_v._Bell
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