“An Image of God”: The Catholic Struggle Against Eugenics and Its Lessons for Today | Eve Tushnet

“An Image of God”: The Catholic Struggle Against Eugenics and Its Lessons for Today | Eve Tushnet: Perhaps the most famous statement in the American history of eugenics is Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's one-liner upholding forced sterilization in Buck v. Bell, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough." Carrie Buck was sterilized against her will because she, her mother, and her baby daughter were