harry laughlin had projected that we needed to be fifteen million americans sterilized. in one nine hundred fourteen aloft and was asked to write a model. and harry loughlin said this law should use to sterilize ten perhaps cysteine million people represent the bottom tenth of the american population. and when the newspapers picked up the headline people and the reaction. was strong against him. his plan was really to simply eliminate people who would cause social costs like crime and poverty. and he thought you could do that if you just didn't let people have children. when virginia passed in sterilization law in nineteen twenty four there was a need to see whether it would be held blood poured civil rights states. and so the doctors at the bridge in the county for me i'm listening. finding an institution near lynchburg virginia shows a young lady named karen buck was the first person to be sterilized. i met her in one nine hundred eighty three and she told me how she had been falsely accused of being promiscuous of being an unfit mother a big moral degenerate. when we a