Tens of thousands were forcibly sterilised throughout the 20th century across the US as they were deemed "feeble minded" and "inappropriate candidates" for reproduction.<br /><br />In 1927, the Supreme Court upheld state statues permitting compulsory sterilisation in the "Buck versus Bell" decision.<br /><br />The Supreme Court ruling, which Nazis at the Nuremberg trials cited in their defence, has never been expressly overturned.
