All language subtitles for [English (auto-generated)] Based on a True Story_ Against Her Will (1994) [DownSub.com]

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you know what I probably you babies and

what about mrs. one well there isn't one

you didn't tell me daddy either does

that matter no miss prentace

Adam we've been looking all over for you

boy and I for you how do you do let's go

get your son today

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hello

you know over there miss prentace mr.

Ian strap on the state senator one of

the world's two great Democrats and

someone I'm sure he's gonna hit up for

campaign money who gonna do by the word

he said nice to meet you and please call

me Melissa Melissa has docked against

nice Oh the lawyer

well yes we've all heard about you he is

very proud she was top of a class in

Boston she gonna click with me while she

studies for the bar exam ladies and

gentlemen please join me in a big

welcome for the current and the next

leader of the great Commonwealth of

Virginia ladies and gentleman the

governor Albert Lee trinkle I'm gonna

keep it short I want you to go on

enjoying yourselves here and I want me

to have something left to say when I do

come to hit you up for contributions

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we have the great wall behind us and

only greatness before us there's

opportunity out there and it's our duty

to see it and take hold of it and better

ourselves with it we're here tonight

together because we believe in progress

we believe that through social progress

we can perfect our society we believe

that through economic progress we can

perfect our commerce and industry we

believe that through scientific progress

we can affect even the human race itself

and my friends any goals short of that

is just not good enough us here in the

Commonwealth of Virginia so I ask you

all to raise your glasses with me not

just to this campaign but to a whole new

beginning a new beginning each day and a

proud new beginning together

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mr. White's office

which do you think well then this one it

is truck I finished up the fini

documents with Spence I said I should

bring it to you

good thank you don't take those out

later on evenness ones thank this one

it's more noticeable I was hoping I

could go with you to feel ec

everything's come past my desk and I'd

like to see the end it's clearly not in

a good part of town I mean not the type

of place I think your uncle would want

you go law school was a type of place my

uncle didn't want me going

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flush some lemonade I can't get it

[ __ ] with the child speaking of

which do you call the feeble-minded

colony today they said dr. cats out of

town due back in Lynchburg into the week

they say when they can commit carry they

said they dried up the order when dr.

Kent's back I certainly hope so

he's already saying we got a place up

here for unwed mothers what was that I

heard about some lemonade let me see my

grandson

come on Feeney you should be taking all

those down and not putting those up

Feeney

you don't get anything out of here you

know he's all gonna come down with the

whole place you can't read or write you

just put an X on this line all this says

that you have been informed and

understand the eviction I understand how

you feel mr. Feeney

no one likes it when these things happen

and no one is doing this to hurt you

it's just that the bank that owns this

building is tearing it down like they're

tearing down other buildings that they

own and whether we like it or not they

have a right to do that see the lease

you signed with them is ending now

either they're gonna come in here and

pull you out of the store or you can

walk out with your head up and get on

with the rest of your life

this is hard enough mr. Feeny please

don't make it harder on yourself

I'm impressed sad how are you forever

his father had the original lease now

the last life yes

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don't ask just from the back room we'll

stay carry out to wipe it down Oh Carrie

I need you to oh my god what the hell

are you doing what

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monitor security just go on all the

arrangements to need and until then

whatever that happens this is still a

home she was just trying to help

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she'll be right out are you come and

carry Santa goodbye I imagine that child

it should be right down

Terry oh well doesn't she look pretty

don't they both come on down dear oh you

changed her again or she does look fine

did she do to yourself again you

remember miss Fredrick don't you yes say

hello hello carry your bags during the

car

are you feeling oh gee why don't I take

Vivian no well now she's such a pretty

child won't you let me hold her hmm look

the nice miss Fredrick's hold her there

now my my what a little darling come on

one outside we're gonna hold it for just

a minute and you and I are gonna go say

goodbye to mr. X okay okay we're gonna

load to carry who's gonna hold for just

a minute we're gonna go in here and say

goodbye come on Carrie come on Carrie

Carrie

mr. White's office just a moment let me

see if he's available it's Miss Jane

Talbot again I'm sorry he's with a

client at the moment yes I'll tell him

she said she promised caller last week

you can't say she is

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ah I'm almost finished with that

historical brief it's actually very

interesting do you need something

no wait hmm I've been invited to a

lecture this weekend to dr. Harry laughs

none of the Carnegie Institute I'm

speaking about eugenics yes I'll go out

is fine but if you're interested I have

an extra ticket I thought if maybe you

weren't studying you might like to come

along I got him

there are 10 to 15 million social

inadequate out there and it's not an

exaggeration to say that your new law

here is historic if you'll allow me to

project into the future enforcing the

sexual sterilization of the

feeble-minded will change the face of

this country and indeed the world if all

the other states would show the courage

and the foresight that you Virginians

have by 1950 we could be sterilizing

200,000 a year and by the turn of the

century we would have an America that

would be free of insanity

feeble-mindedness epilepsy poverty and

most of its crime think of that ladies

and gentlemen think of it oh hello Jack

this is mr. mrs. barrows parish ugly

Cummings my colleague Lois apprentice

10,000 feeble-minded in the state yes

but remember most of them are roaming

free out there they need to be found and

committed first what we have enough

facilities right now I'd say we do about

400 this year I know you were sued a few

years ago for sterilizing some inmates

with this law help prevent future suits

I hope so sir thank you sir I've dr.

Kent I was hoping to have a word with

you well I would be honored hey I know

that this case was designed to keep you

out of the courts but it is the opinion

of my colleagues and I that you need to

get back into the courts as soon as

possible I don't understand we need to

have you sued again well we need a case

that'll test this law right to the

Supreme Court of the United States what

if it doesn't pass we think it will

Justice Holmes is with us and the Jew

Brandeis is with Holmes and Butler is

the only Catholic if the Supreme Court

stamps its approval all the other states

can come on board how exactly would we

proceed very simply you find a subject

who touches on as many provisions of the

law as possible ideally someone with no

religion or close friends or mentally

sound relatives then you find a

cooperative attorney to object to the

sterilization and then you appeal the

case right up the ladder to Washington

forgive me if I'm one being sued what if

we don't win I have the full backing of

the Carnegie Institute

he's got a speaker huh yeah get a read

his book no but I've seen it around our

garages office I just haven't had a

chance to

that's what do you read these days

nothing but law books no D H Lawrence

oh come on it's not that scandalous

her what idiots what's that

she looks like she's not run away from

the colony

let me handle this I'm going to

Charlotte fair where are you coming from

come from the colony if you're gonna

show us no you go in the wrong way

because Charlotte feels this way now do

you need a ride

we take you there if you'll come on come

on get the car come okay that's it

come on come on yeah we get in the car

so that we can go that way that's right

get the idea

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tonight for long walk to Charlottesville

is that where you're from

What's in Charlottesville

that's all right you don't have to tell

me if you don't want to

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do you want to tell me your name

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gentlemen I need the road to

Charlottesville completely doesn't you

good - got too far but we need the fiber

before God what about the train on the

way to Charlottesville she's alright do

you know how much were you put her

through here take it they reward I'll be

there

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hmm Galata I made you a sandwich and

some tea or is it the best news I've

heard all day but the tea might be cold

you like me to get you someone no no yes

fine you are up to bed thank you that

girl is afternoon very sweet she's

mother box we've had a number of over

the years well what's wrong with it

she's feeble-minded moral delinquent

hello illegitimate baby what's gonna

happen to it okay well what's gonna

happen to it well I don't know Melissa

I'll have to look into a keys oh thank

you

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all right let's try a few numbers how

about that let's do these backwards six

nine four eight - my dear dr. Laughlin

she has sensual emotional reaction and

is morally economically and socially

inadequate her record is of immorality

promiscuity and untruthfulness what am i

with you

do you want to be our mrs. Evans in your

baby the mrs. Evans is afraid you might

have another baby would you like for

mrs. Evans never have to worry about

that for you never have to worry about

having another baby

she belongs to that shiftless ignorant

and worthless class of anti-social

whites of the South would you like that

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her name is Carrie buck

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excuse me okay then you find us another

runaway yeah what the doctor kit

actually I'm looking for carry but oh

they all had on the phone thank you

Harry Harry what's wrong are you hurt

should I go get dr. Kim what is he

oh my god you must be in pain where's

your babies taken away my patient was

subside well that's over the pain where

if you big days you can't even like that

for few days I'll examine see what I'm

beautiful she needs to be with the baby

in her life and she is gonna be soon

enough

complication need to sterilize her

what's that done she'll be out in the

world again

I have a thing to worry about darling

you just run along don't worry Oh what

is that that's a pig very good very good

good work it's a pretty woman wait to

see me I was hoping it was you now these

I've just come in I got 15 minutes to

make a decision which do you think thank

you right remind you that in troubled

look it doesn't go too well with it

something the matter

I have to file these with the court by 5

o'clock yeah what's the last about what

three hours from now so that can be was

on your mind you don't have to tell me

I went by the colony on my way here and

saw that girl that we picked up when

they committed her they took her away

from the baby she was nursing and uncle

Arthur says he's gonna keep her there

till he sterilized her

well I just don't think she should be

kept away from a child like that and I

was wondering if there was something we

could do for some kind of legal

provision in some way I'll tell you what

why don't we talk about it later let me

take you to dinner tonight talk about

them you don't have to do this what know

what don't want to fine pick yourself

yeah that's her over there yeah that's

her poor thing dr. Laughlin wants to get

a case holiday the Supreme Court

lockdown once and for all the

constitutionality of these kinds of laws

since this would be a big step forward

in any career I was hoping maybe we

could get you to act as our attorney

well I'd be honored thank you

well I thought you might be interested

I'll get some paperwork sent over the

office our first step is gonna be to

have a meeting of the colony board they

will certify that she is fit for

sterilization then her guardian will

object and appeal it into court and what

about her attorney well write that here

but don't worry gonna be somebody

cooperative this is a friendly suit

yeah this feeling I asked you to put it

here I just had them put these others

out so people wouldn't feel bad why

didn't you stay in Virginia for law

school they wouldn't let me they weren't

taking any women how's that for a

progressive state there are and you

can't join our bond sure we can vote

here to put progressives like you're

gathering at wrinkled what's wrong with

that you don't really think we won that

do you it was the lesser of two evils

Adam how do you keep the colored vote

insignificant you double the wife of the

common woman's causes have been strong

and successful trinkle has spoken out

for them hundreds of times na I did

didn't I yes but would you ever hire

colored to work anywhere but your

kitchen or your garden the women have

only done well here and it can be lines

mrs. Davitt n you can't make a good liar

I intend to your uncle said you with

strong willed I imagined

stubborn is probably the word he used I

love uncle Arthur he's always been my

favorite I used to come here every

summer when I was a little girl mama and

I would pack up the car and drive down

from Richmond and stay with him I was a

tomboy you see that I can't imagine

I used to get into all kinds of trouble

for now well friend and I emptied a jar

of fireflies into one of the colony

windows and the inmates went berserk and

had a party oh we used to steal oh man

Delaney's robot and we would go catch

catfish and we would toss them alive in

the windows of passing trains oh then we

take the boat all the way down the river

and go skinny dip it in this women we

used to steal a tow boat this big very

much so his boat is to still see him out

fishing at me so I say to what

it's nice name oh you don't mean why are

you bearing me

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yes I am not as fit they didn't have

remnants grew up in Boston

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go know you

actually I am a little cold take my

jacket

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I'm Nessen left it on the dock

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sorry

nomination hello but enemies it's not

physically the mostly bright beautiful

minutes we're gonna in the hospice next

day just get this one wall between you

all all day long

what's on the other side

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I've never seen a dead body before of

you I saw my mama in the casket but she

was all done up you know made to be seen

this just a few days ago that we were

standing with him in stone it was so

easy just to draw up those papers and

fill in empty nee we didn't do anything

wrong I don't even know what M stands

for do you know you can't take the blame

for what happened

Adam

uncle Arthur says are gonna have a

hearing tomorrow bad that girl Carrie

sterilization yeah I want to go do you

mind if I take the afternoon off no you

go Thanks please have the record show

myself as attorney for the board mr.

William Sherman is court-appointed

Guardian for the inmate Carrie buck and

miss Melissa Prentiss apologize for my

tardiness gentlemen I would like to have

you meet Carrie buck I classify her as a

lowest grade [ __ ]

her mental age is about seven yet she's

already had one illegitimate mentally

defective child she's a moral delinquent

but I think physically capable of

earning her own living if protected

against child bearing with sterilization

man if she were not sterilized she would

have to remain here at the expense of

the state for the remainder of her

childbearing years maybe 30 years so as

your opinion is sterilizing Carrie would

be better for her and society I believe

that preventing Carrie buck from

childbearing is our duty and his support

for this in general medicine yes my

belief is based on all the authorities

on mental defectiveness and on stripper

culture which is the study of horse

breeding and all the general principles

of heredity

thank you dr. Kent don't throw the

questions do I say no not yet I'll tell

you when mr. chairman it's your duty to

defend Carrie Bucks rights and interest

if you have any questions of dr. Kent

yes sir I do doctor

what what assurance can you give that

sterilization will not be dangerous to

carry bucks health alive the operation

is

then he can be the girls leave their

beds in two or three weeks know their

womanly functions except for

childbearing is impaired

I've already sterilized oh I'd say

eighty to a hundred females and we have

that one single dead

they've been no deaths gentlemen

couldn't she be taught or trained to

restore herself to society as a moral

and responsible individual no sir that

would be impossible

self-control moral conception are

lacking in her they cannot be supplied

by training or teaching is incurably

congenitally defective thank you doctor

you suspend you have any questions for

the inmate herself just one Carrie do

you care to say anything about having

this operation performed on you I do not

do dis up to my Purple People the child

has no people does William Sherman even

Noah has he told her what's gonna happen

she wouldn't understand well this is a

serious operation she has to be made to

understand uncle Watty you sterilized 80

to a hundred girls of all the hearings

been this way hasn't been a hearing like

this before this is a new law which is

all and carries best interest why

William Sherman's qualifications is he a

lawyer is he a doctor I just sit there

and just elect someone suitable yeah but

he's representing your side no Sherman

only has two questions yes Ian and I

instructed him which were the proper

ones Melissa this is my job honey

I've worked with girls like this for

most of my life I do know what's best

for them

trust me I really do

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Carrie how are you are you still hurting

the doctor can't give you a hot water

bottle good good

Carrie they're only gonna let you see

Vivian after they give you an operation

do you know what an operation is gotta

cut into your body and they got to

change you carry forever they're gonna

make it so that you can't have any more

babies in like 50 you should be able to

see Vivian without having that done to

you and I want to help you who knows

maybe someday I think that should be

your choice - do you want me to help you

here I went to feed the beer

he went to Norfolk for the campaign

northa Friday he has this club launching

did he leave a message

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very good I was trying to knock you off

the field in there and see what you get

for it I understand you're working well

with you and Melissa oh yeah she's quite

a girl okay slow yeah matter of fact

more than I expected yeah I'm glad to

hear that I mean you got room for

another case what laconic a very

important case let me call you right

back

I know call you back

bye-bye wondering where you were there's

a case that we need to do my trip was

great thanks I missed you too hmm we're

way up in the Norfolk polls Hey look at

this over here for my luncheon what is

the campaign contributions your uncle

was particularly generous good I went to

Carrie sterilization hearing Adam it was

a joke

the board already ruled for uncle Arthur

so I think there's something that we can

do listen her Guardians name is William

Sherman he's a friend of Ian strands we

need to get him to appeal the County

Court he's already going to how do you

know that he was at the club and he said

he's gonna be useful well who's

representing him I am are you serious

yes he asked me and I said I'd be happy

to

what is all of this hi

these are carries papers they just came

in everything her medical records the

commitment proceedings petitions I even

hold some the cases won't have to bar

exam in a month

I'm studying Navy what if you get a

gentleman caller but that all depends on

who he is

my handsome lawyer he'll have to call

and see yes I'll make time I promise

well nothing are you trying to say you

don't want me on this

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so there she is with the Evans family

doing just fine with the chores thank

you for using ears and she gets pregnant

well now they want to be rid of it

she's an unwed mother she's an

embarrassment so they say they can't

support it anymore they say she is

dishonest has hallucinations outbreak

September here they even try and say

she's epileptic since childhood before

they said that she has never been

subject to epilepsy headaches

nervousness Kate's convulsions of spasms

many times she is not epileptic that's

the medical record set just the

convenient feeble-minded within the

meaning of the wild lettuce abroad

definitely yes so it does uneducated

which is all she taught me they log you

she's not ethical according to uncle

Ross if she was committed in his being

sterilized for being immoral delinquent

you're not born with my uncle Arthur

says otherwise no prove him wrong

heredity is scientifically document not

of loss it's not no look the better part

of her family has been in the colony of

one time or another including our own

mother now there's eight known members

who knows how many others and carry

herself was born out of wedlock I see

part of a whole pattern we can't deny

their desires do get the best of that

kind of girl

they end up pregnant so we blame them

what about the men that take advantage

of that guiltless you can't blame them

the girls come looking for it and metal

easy prey not in the issue here the most

frustrating human being that I have ever

know I'm just trying to make you a

better lawyer

yes no you listen man do you know how

many girls can get pregnant in the

streets each year there's just a case of

the case and Carrie is difficult how do

you know does anyone ever ask how that

happens is that what you'd say if I

suddenly showed up pregnant something

you're telling me I'm trying to be

serious I'm making it different why

because I don't fit when uncle Arthur's

patterns cuz I'm not a slow girl from

the hills something could just as easily

happen to me

yes well under the same conditions yes

maybe good walking down the street it

could see that's my whole point here no

one's ever bothered to find out what

really happens to these girls have you

asked Carrie what happened down no I

after Cain has to authorize any lease

personally he won't be back for another

two days yes I know I just took them to

the train station well then you know I

can't let her out don't you I'm an

attorney I work with mr. white and I

need to spend a few hours with it is

there someplace I can talk to her

completely understood close the door no

one will bother you

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surprise

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all right

nirisha cover the hands promise you

can't see anything

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all right you can look now

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do you take cream and sugar

just cream please so Kari never said who

the father was

Oh gracious no she tried to deny the

whole thing but what would she say oh

you know that she didn't know how it

happened that kind of thing do you think

she might have been forced mrs. Evers I

suppose anything's possible isn't it

who's to know imagine when all saved and

she just got herself into trouble like a

lot of them do she free Bing

just hit my Facebook page I can see why

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did you make this bar care

you acted here too

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should I COO I'm glad the gone now not

yet we still have more time I do not

want to go back

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why did you have a baby Carrie I love

fair did you love a boy

was it a man

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it was a boy but you didn't love him

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what was his name Carrie

they will entice

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was he a friend was he nice to you

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did he hold you

close to him like hug

how did he hold you carry show me how he

held

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it's alright you can show me

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come on Kari we have to go now it's all

right Kari give it it's okay don't worry

we'll come back soon

it's okay Gary come on come on let go

I got it Kerry welcome back get in the

car get in the car miss Evans who is

Darryl Anderson he's my nephew is my

husband's nephew his sister's son

goodbye goodbye goodbye Carrie come back

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he said his name is Darryl Anderson tell

you how it happened no that's all I

could get out of and then she started

crying we need to find him look they

don't have any proof we will if I think

we have the word of a girl who is

incompetent to testify well then we'll

get more out of it like what something I

don't know what something and who do you

think they're gonna believe

Adam her only crime was having that baby

and she was raped

look I know Judge Henry and he won't let

us turn this into a rape trial and even

if we wanted to press charges

it's a separate case and you know that

Carrie she's up in confinement why we

should left the grounds went to

Charlotte sale with you I believe

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Gary

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okay I'm so sorry I never meant for this

to happen I'm gonna go and talk to dr.

Kenneth tell him it was all my fault all

I want is to help you Carrie

what her

do you know that

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can you please just tell me that you

know it this wasn't meant to happen

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if you're gonna confine someone it

should be me do all the have you

arrested

well yeah no right Melissa had no right

take it away from here take it out see

that baby and punish me that's not my

job Carrie knows the rules here it's not

the first time she's left thank you very

well know Uncle I think you're the one

person that can help her please listen

I'm trying to help her and if you want

to help her - then stop interfering

it is my job to interfere I'm a lawyer

not a lawyer

Adam why does her lawyer and I work for

him Melissa he is embarrassed the best

yes and I'm embarrassed too he had no

idea you went out there you spoke with

him yes I spoke with him call him up I

won't ask you what the devil's going on

he said he was embarrassed he said he

had no idea about anything you got by

well he didn't listen if I could please

give you a little advice I'd be very

careful darling you are beautiful young

woman Adam was as fine a boys ever came

down the track but if you keep on like

this on you're gonna ruin everything

gonna drive him away I told him a lot of

things about you but I didn't tell him

you were like this and just what did you

tell him I told him what I've been

telling him for years that you two would

get along famously but you'd be a fine

mother wife just as soon as you got this

damn lawyer stuff out of your system you

told him that yes I told him there so

why don't you just let things be I mean

just stop meddling on and things that do

not concern you now see if I'm a facade

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mr. Prentice Mississippi

I am sorry of that what our telephone

that said you'd be back soon do you want

to come in

no my husband would he's waiting for me

on Main Street

thanks I'm sharpening he said it's witty

see there's something I didn't tell you

the other day there were these bruises

that Kerry had here on her wrist and a

fine silk nightgown that mr. Evans and I

had given to her was missing

kara said she'd thrown it out that she

told it caught it on a nail one day I

was out by the scenery Don and I got a

glimpse of it stuffed down his side so I

pulled it out it was torn all right not

like she caught it on the nail just told

all the way down the front like it been

ripped right off of her and there was

blood all smeared into the back she'd

had a month Lisa only more and well

Darryl Anderson was staying at our house

it that's fine mrs. Evans I need you to

help me I need you to help Carrie I need

you to come down to the court and tell

people it's not gonna help they're gonna

do it too anyway don't you know that the

doors are all those girls we can stop

them husband say that if I I gotta go

he's gonna come with me sing for me he's

you summoned me I'm gonna have to screw

that I was never here

Stephen torch it I needed to tell

someone I mean you don't know I got to

go

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hey what do you think you tell me what

was that

Ian strains witness they're gonna call

Harriet's office oh yeah ah no you know

what well I just found out spoke to Ian

mrs. Evans came by the office today we

should just bank

she said it for Congress you perjured

herself so I think we should ask for a

continuance and we should try and find

Geralyn oh you said you can't find it

well somebody's got to know where he is

we just need more time but if we don't

find it what do you think he's gonna say

yeah alright well put him on the stand

and hammer him until he gives it it

won't happen who besides you know it

wouldn't change anything anyway

alright so who are we well I've been

thinking about that yeah these need to

get to Amherst right away best move is

to call not one no one what do you mean

well who would you suggest somebody to

refute love bases that'll only make us

look foolish

he's the world's leading expert try to

impeach Ian's witnesses and then you

show the law unconstitutional will

appeal but this is the kind of cake they

can go all the way to the Supreme Court

now do you know what that means

I do it means that we have to win it

right here right now next week they want

to seal the right to sterilize Carrie

and every other girl in that colony and

that's only gonna be the beginning Adam

next it'll be the blind and the deaf the

crippled the poor the Negroes the Jews

and anybody else who isn't good white

and all-american in the eyes of dr.

Harry H la flavor and that's not just

gonna be to carry bucks Adam

Melton was blind Byron had a club foot

Beethoven was deaf we need our own

expert listen listen right now but let

me read you marry me what do you mean

why did I hire you I mean why did you

hire me well because I've read your work

I thought it was good and I was looking

at ease my load to get on with things

like this campaign why

you call me in here and you ask my

opinion on your hats and your flyers and

your posters do you really care what I

think about our case of course I do it

good then I think we need our own expert

and I'm gonna go find us 100 tall dwarf

now this is a pure tall this is a pure

dwarf and these two middle ones are

hybrid tall's which means they look

exactly like the pure tall but have the

gene for dwarfism hidden inside them if

they mate they can produce a pure dwarf

but this doesn't work for humans oh no

for some physical traits it does six

fingers I color a baldness but certainly

not all the mental and social conditions

your dr. Laughlin would have us believe

what about this chart feeble-mindedness

and all this studies family studies on

on alcoholism in poverty be nice to

blame all the ills of the world on

biology wouldn't it listen the most

complicated organisms I work with our

fruit flies tiny little gnats that

reproduce very quickly we study their

eyes and wings and we're only beginning

to understand how complex the

relationship of genetics is to the

environment it's hard to even speculate

about the human mind from the first

moment of consciousness it's subject to

all kinds of conditions education

sanitation medical care love thousands

of different variables and even if this

were all true watch what sterilization

would do let's change these little ds2

F's for feeble-minded and leave these

big DS for let's say decent the only

feeble-minded would be this one-fourth

of this generation

that's who'd be sterilized but these

other hybrids would still carry the

feeble-minded gene yet appear completely

decent you could sterilize every

feeble-minded one but it would still

take generations to see any meaningful

reduction and the gene itself would be

impossible to eliminate unless of course

he wants to sterilize them all

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they caught Kari trying to jump the

train to Charlotte until the jail go

away please both of you please Carrie

may I come in Carrie are you hurt

I would like to come in if it's all

right

but I won't unless you say you can leave

if you want to

nope they won't stop you no one here

will stop you but they will find you

carry every time and they will take you

back to the colony I want to help you to

be free but we have to do things the

right way now I don't know if you can

understand this but the right way is

through the law that's what mr. white

and I work at every day for you we don't

think that the law is being fair to you

and we think that you should have some

kind of say in your own life Gary we are

going to do everything that we can for

you we really are

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so you can go if you want to well you

can come with us

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she's a distinct liability would you say

that she could take care of her own

children no I wouldn't

on the very day I brought it to the

colony I witnessed her throwing a

vicious temper tantrum she scratched her

own child quite badly okay now tell me

about this child that she stretched I

mean do you have specific impressions of

it well it's difficult to judge one so

young but I have seen the child with

mrs. Evans grandchild Steven just three

days older and there is a look about

Carrie's child that is well not quite

normal

your witness mr. what you say carries

baby does not measure up to the Evanses

no not nearly can either them talk no

can they walk no fanny of what way do

they differ

well the Evans baby is it's just a baby

you can play with the other baby isn't

it seems more apathetic not responsive

more passive yes very much so and

because it's more passed if you think

it's people minded I think it is well

just not quite normal and this more

active baby is a boy and the more

passive one a girl is that right yes sir

all right now before carries pregnancy

are there any records at your agency

that show Carrie buck to be

feeble-minded or antisocial no sir so

your opinion that she is feeble-minded

and antisocial is based on the birth of

her child um

that and that as a social worker I know

girls of that type of what time

decidedly feeble-minded but wait the

fact that this girl made a misstep or

was perhaps taken advantage of is that

evidence of feeble mindedness no but a

feeble minded girl is much more likely

to go wrong I see now

just one more question you say Kerry is

a liability do you think by sterilizing

she would become an asset I don't know

that she could ever become an asset but

I do think it would at least prevent the

propagation of her kind it would prevent

the propagation of her kind undoubtedly

thank you mr. previck why didn't you ask

her about the stretch

I didn't who do the judge got the point

and I'm sure her version to be

differently carries anyway everybody's

version of everything is different from

Kerry's now they just gave her this

label feeble-minded Vivian - and she

can't even speak yet we need to show

that to the judge we just did no I mean

we really need to stop Melissa you know

as well as I do the Kari has her

limitations and what if we want to argue

she could be a competent parent I think

she can't if she gets some help the

evidences don't want to help her any

then another family there what we have

to find families

she marries then she'd have a husband to

love and care for he might want to have

more babies with her how do we she's an

attractive sweet girl I can see what are

you saying you want to put Carrie on the

stand yes I think we should oh we can't

be why not you really think she could

handle it yes I do at least over the

chance don't we

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manling with curry but where do you live

in the car well where did you live

before that mr. ever

now I understand you have a baby is that

right yeah baby

yes sir what's her name / feel where is

your baby live server OS he's old

someone else is raising your baby for

you who's been Ian's father Karen hey

you don't want to answer that it's

alright just tell us did you know him

did you know him well

yeah oh I see not are you in the habit

of having sexual relations with men you

don't know well do you not understand my

question

I'm gonna put another way for you do you

often sleep with men you don't know well

but you did sleep with Vivian's father

yes is there something you want to say

okay no now I don't know you won't have

sex with someone like Vivian's father

again no you did once huh should I

repeat the question

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tomorrow they're gonna call dr.

DeJohnette dr. Estabrook uncle Lawson

and dr. Lawson

we'll move as a Morgan

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please state your name and occupation my

name is Harry H Laughlin I am in charge

of the eugenics Record Office of the

Carnegie Institution of Washington I had

the investigation of heredity in humans

animals and plants I see and in this

investigation have you made any effort

to determine to what extent insanity and

feeble-mindedness are transmissible by

heredity yes we've made great efforts in

that area and can you please tell the

court what you found certainly if I may

refer to my charts human mental

characteristics are inherited in exactly

the same way as physical ones such as

say the condition of six fingers but

while six fingers is what we call a

dominant condition feeble-mindedness

is what we call a recessive if you'll

follow here on the chart I'll make it

clear the operation is a very simple

procedure it's just cutting the

fallopian tubes in tying aback

proficient and hospital stay to what we

have proposed in your honor is an

in-and-out method by which our

institutions would be turned into

clearing houses to take these girls in

sterilize them and turn them back out

again in a very short period of time we

could have the better part of them taken

care of so this operation is just a

simple cut and tyre with none of the

ovaries removed though indeed sir that

would be criminal no further questions

thank you your honor

mr. strand no questions your honor

getting over the witnesses you may step

down

dr. Kent mr. white do you wish to call

any witnesses

no witnesses your honor then I believe

we just have some technical matters

we'll take a recess until two o'clock

what I brought you Morgan and you never

even used him to challenge Laughlin you

didn't challenge any of them is

Frederick uncle Arthur that's because

this is just a friendly suit Italy right

from the beginning

ELISA there's no question the Carrie

buck should be prevented from having

children what's in court here is the law

that not her you never wanted a partner

for your practice oh excuse me I just

told me that but I was stupid enough to

convince myself that it wasn't true I do

I wanted to tell you the truth well be

God did try but you were just too

charged off you're not me I was hoping

we could somehow both find the power

away with this a girl is about to lose

her fertility appeal just idea see to

argue it in Supreme Court

you should have argued it here let uncle

Arthur appeal what

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he gave his team

and you took it so that you could get

your name into the history books oh well

what does that make me um I'm a favorite

of him Melissa we are taking this case

to the highest court in the country the

nine greatest judicial minds are there

Oliver Wendell Holmes Miranda

Butler this is the right way you know

this is not the right way and you know

it

withdraw

pardon withdraw and show them that

you're not as much of a pawn as you've

made carry withdraw from the case I

can't

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I have to go because

I can't do anything for you here we go

I'm not sure 1st 3rd still pet shops Wow

well they look funny back I don't know I

don't know if I am coming back but I do

know that I'm gonna do everything I can

for you Carrie and I need for you to

know that you trusted me

we my friend and you're my friend Kaiba

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bye-bye

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my friends we have triumphed in the

Supreme Court of the United States now

these are the targets of Sturluson the

people minded the insane and

psychopathic the delinquent epileptics

drunkard drug addicts the diseased in

any way

and [ __ ] in your phone

or

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play the cat now that's a fallopian tube

all right all right cut

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you