Virginia passes a compulsory sterilization statute, renewing the momentum of the sterilization movement.
Date: 1924
Virginia passes a compulsory sterilization statute to prevent reproduction by “potential parents of socially inadequate offspring.”
The U.S. Supreme Court upholds this statute, renewing the momentum of the sterilization movement after a decade of constitutional challenges have invalidated seven state eugenics laws, including overturning the original 1907 Virginia sterilization law.