The Law and the Liability of Eugenics
For decades, a program called Eugenics gave state boards the right to deem someone “unfit to procreate.” The outcome of this was 66,000 Americans were selectively sterilized between the late 1920’s and the 1980’s. Lawyer2Lawyer co-host and attorney J. Craig Williams welcomes Professor Alfred Brophy, from the University of North Carolina School of Law and Attorney James Bowden from Waller Lansden, to discuss this controversial practice, the US Supreme Court’s shocking decision on eugenics and why forced sterilization “is” technically constitutional.
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[...] Well, it wasn’t quite that bad. On Wednesday, I had the privilege of contributing to a podcast on eugenics and North Carolina’s recently announced restitution program for victims of involuntary sterilization on the Legal Talk Network with Alfred Brophy, a professor of law at the University of North Carolina School of Law at Chapel Hill as moderated by J. Craig Williams. If you want to find out what happens when a law professor who has published two scholarly works on a legal issue discusses the subject with a blogger who wrote 300-odd words about a story he heard on National Public Radio while he drove to work, here it is. [...]