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On May 2, 1927, the United States Supreme Court, in a nine-to-one decision, ruled that the State of Virginia's Colony of Epileptics and Feebleminded could legally sterilize one of their residents, a young woman called Carrie Buck, without her consent. The case set a precedent in U.S. legal history, deeming an individual's rights to be contingent upon the decision of expert eugenicists as to whether the person was "fit" to reproduce or not.