The premise of this movie is flawed because someone did not do their research.
Carrie Buck was not intellectually disabled. She was an average student in school (and moved into above average territory several times as she made the honor roll). Carrie Buck only "sin" was being raped by the nephew of the foster family she lived with. When Buck became pregnant from that rape, the foster family committed her to the Virginia Home for Epileptics and the Feeble-Minded rather than place the blame of her situation where it belonged.
Buck's daughter was taken from at birth (as she was deemed unfit to care for her... again for no reason other than she was deemed "promiscuous") and given to the foster family to adopt.
Buck was then used as a test case for Virginia's new Eugenics Law and sterilized. She was released soon after so the state obviously deemed her competent to care for herself despite labeling her an imbecile.
Carrie Buck's story is a tragedy and an outrage but this movie did her a grave disservice by portraying her in a light that provides justification for the actions of the state.
Carrie Buck was not intellectually disabled. She was an average student in school (and moved into above average territory several times as she made the honor roll). Carrie Buck only "sin" was being raped by the nephew of the foster family she lived with. When Buck became pregnant from that rape, the foster family committed her to the Virginia Home for Epileptics and the Feeble-Minded rather than place the blame of her situation where it belonged.
Buck's daughter was taken from at birth (as she was deemed unfit to care for her... again for no reason other than she was deemed "promiscuous") and given to the foster family to adopt.
Buck was then used as a test case for Virginia's new Eugenics Law and sterilized. She was released soon after so the state obviously deemed her competent to care for herself despite labeling her an imbecile.
Carrie Buck's story is a tragedy and an outrage but this movie did her a grave disservice by portraying her in a light that provides justification for the actions of the state.