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|arguments=Buck's defense argued that involuntary sterilization of Carrie Buck violated her due process rights.
|arguments=Buck's defense argued that involuntary sterilization of Carrie Buck violated her due process rights.
|holding=Carrie Buck is "feeble-minded...promiscuous." It is in the best interest of the state to sterilize her.
|holding=Carrie Buck is "feeble-minded...promiscuous." It is in the best interest of the state to sterilize her.
|reasons=Oliver Wendell Holmes reasoned that the state's interest in preserving the public welfare outweighed Carrie Buck's interest in bodily integrity.
|comments=*[[Constitutional_Liberties#Right_to_Procreate]]
|comments=*[[Constitutional_Liberties#Right_to_Procreate]]
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