Forced Sterilization By Eugenics / 优生学强制绝育
Forced sterilization by eugenics / 优生学强制绝育 is the state-violence pattern where a person labeled unfit is denied reproductive autonomy in the name of heredity, public welfare, or social improvement. 37.智商测试：请问你是智力婆罗门吗？ grounds the concept in [[CarrieBuck|Carrie Buck / 卡丽·巴克]] and the broader American eugenics movement.
The episode presents forced sterilization as the moment where [[IntelligenceTesting|intelligence testing]] and [[EugenicGovernance|eugenic governance]] leave the domain of labels and become bodily harm. Buck’s case is especially important because sexual victimization, institutional interest, class judgment, legal weakness, and claims about inherited intelligence converged to make coercion appear lawful.
Key Claims
- Forced sterilization turns diagnostic labels into irreversible bodily control.
- The source treats gendered blame and institutional conflict of interest as central, not incidental, to the harm.
- Later evidence that Buck and her daughter Vivian were not intellectually disabled undermines the confidence of the original legal and medical label.
- The concept shows why Rational Humility is not a soft value when state power is involved.
Connections
- Carrie Buck / 卡丽·巴克 - source case.
- Eugenic Governance / 优生学治理, Psychometric Social Sorting / 心理测量式社会分层, and Intelligence Testing / 智力测试 - upstream measurement and policy branch.
- United States and Nazi Germany / 纳粹德国 - source settings where eugenic ideas had policy consequences.
- Legal Paradox Thinking and Criminal Law As Power Limitation - adjacent legal pages on power and caution.