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  1. Birth of Eugenics – Death of Compassion
    date 1924 to October 19, 1927map Lynchburg City, Virginiatags Women, Law, Medicine/Health

    On October 19, 1927, Carrie Buck struggled against the orderlies taking her to the operating room. She wondered how she came to this point in her life. She had been given to a foster family, then raped and impregnated by a family friend. Authorities took away her daughter, Vivian, when Carrie was institutionalized to hide the foster family’s shame. Carrie became Virginia’s first test case in a...