Carrie Buck was the most widely known white victim of Virginia's eugenics laws.

He was an early, high-profile opponent of eugenics laws, and he carried his opposition into the vice-presidency.

The most controversial aspect of those programs was the use of "negative" eugenics laws which allowed government agencies to sterilize individuals alleged to have undesirable genes.

The eugenics law came under fire in 1973 by religious groups and political leaders.

In 1932 he was surgically castrated under the provisions of the eugenics laws in place.

The school was used to enforce the state's eugenics law, though fewer forced sterilizations took place in Wayne county.

A national eugenics law is also being drafted.

He sponsored a resolution that passed in 2007 apologizing for Georgia's eugenics laws and blaming them on Social Darwinism.

In 1909 a eugenics law was passed in California allowing for state institutions to sterilize those deemed "unfit" or "feeble-minded" .

A revised eugenics law was passed in 1927, and it remained in effect until 1974.