Our "revered" SCOTUS:

https://dokumen.pub/brain-injury-med...785392972.html

Although the US system was designed to protect against the unruly whim of the majority or the very loud minority, the courts are not always the protectors of human rights or good science. One of the most infamous of cases in 1927, Buck v Bell (49), the US Supreme Court upheld a Virginia statute instituting the eugenic ‘‘sterilization of the unfit’’ for the ‘‘protection and health of the state.’’ In his opinion, Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes stated that ‘‘3 generations of imbeciles are enough.’’ This case led to a proliferation of state sterilization laws that stayed on the books for many years (50). The Virginia statute was not officially overturned until 1974. Some would argue that politicians and lawmakers have legal and moral responsibilities to protect and preserve public health. But as both the Schiavo and Buck cases illustrate, there are differences of opinion regarding what that means.