carry loughlin had projected that we needed to be fifteen million american sterilized. in one nine hundred fourteen aloft and was asked to write a model. and harry loughlin said this law should use to sterilise ten perhaps sistine 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. this plan was really to simply eliminate people who would cause social costs like crime and poverty. and we 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 upheld by courts of the united states. and some of the doctors at the bridge in the county for me coming to see finding an institution near lynchburg virginia shows a young lady named carrie bach is 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