Hey everyone, this is Leon Nefak from Fiasco and Slowburn.

On this week's episode of Five to Four, Peter, Riannan and Michael are going back nearly

100 years to Buck V. Bell, in which the Supreme Court found that forced sterilization of the

Mentui Hill was constitutional, as long as it was done for the protection and health of

the state.

33 states had a eugenics program in the early 1900s, most ended after World War II.

However, North Carolina's program ran until 1974.

The ruling, which assumed a connection between mental illness and criminality, has never

been overturned.

Immigrant women coming across subordinal were simply sterilized.

Against their will often without their knowledge, thousands of them.

This is Five to Four, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.

Welcome to Five to Four, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have

burrowed into America's chess cavity, like that little alien in the 1979 movie Alien.

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The Xenomore.

Sure.

Fucking nerd.

I hate both of you.

Yeah.

I am Peter, Twitter's the law boy.

I am here with Riannan.

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