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- Virginia_Sterilization_Act_of_1924 abstract "The Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924 greatly influenced the development of eugenics in the twentieth century. The act was based on model legislation written by Harry H. Laughlin and challenged by the Supreme Court decision of Buck v. Bell. The Supreme Court upheld the law; consequentially, proving that it was constitutional and making it model law for sterilization laws in other states. Justice Holmes wrote that a patient may be sterilized \"on complying with the very careful provisions by which the act protects the patients from possible abuse.\" Between 1924 and 1979, Virginia sterilized over 7,000 individuals under the act. The act was never declared unconstitutional; however, in 2001, the Virginia General Assembly passed a joint resolution apologizing for the misuse of \"a respectable, 'scientific' veneer to cover activities of those who held blatantly racist views.\" In 2015, the Assembly agreed to compensate individuals sterilized under the act.".
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- Virginia_Sterilization_Act_of_1924 wikiPageWikiLinkText "Sterilization Act".
- Virginia_Sterilization_Act_of_1924 wikiPageWikiLinkText "Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924".
- Virginia_Sterilization_Act_of_1924 wikiPageWikiLinkText "Virginia law".
- Virginia_Sterilization_Act_of_1924 wikiPageWikiLinkText "state statute".
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- Virginia_Sterilization_Act_of_1924 quote "A copy of said petition must be served upon the inmate together with a notice in writing designating the time and place in the said institution, not less than thirty days before the presentation of such petition to said special board of directors when and where said board may hear and act upon such petition".
- Virginia_Sterilization_Act_of_1924 quote "An emergency existing, this act shall be enforced from its passage.".
- Virginia_Sterilization_Act_of_1924 quote "Chap. 394. - An ACT to provide for the sexual sterilization of inmates of State institutions in certain cases. [S B 281]".
- Virginia_Sterilization_Act_of_1924 quote "Whereas, human experience has demonstrated that heredity plays an important part in the transmission of sanity, idiocy, imbecility, epilepsy and crime, now, therefore".
- Virginia_Sterilization_Act_of_1924 quote "Whereas, such sterilization may be effected in males by the operation of vasectomy and in females by the operation of salpingectomy, both of which said operations may be performed without serious pain or substantial danger to the life of the patient, and".
- Virginia_Sterilization_Act_of_1924 quote "Whereas, the Commonwealth has in custodial care and is supporting in various State institutions many defective persons who if now discharged or paroled would likely become by the propagation of their kind a menace to society but who if incapable of procreating might properly and safely be discharged or paroled and become self-supporting with benefit both to themselves and to society, and".
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- Virginia_Sterilization_Act_of_1924 subject Category:Eugenics_in_the_United_States.
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- Virginia_Sterilization_Act_of_1924 comment "The Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924 greatly influenced the development of eugenics in the twentieth century. The act was based on model legislation written by Harry H. Laughlin and challenged by the Supreme Court decision of Buck v. Bell. The Supreme Court upheld the law; consequentially, proving that it was constitutional and making it model law for sterilization laws in other states.".
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