Is Mandatory Sterilization Unconstitutional?

My cousin Loretta, not her real name, was born to Lisle and Alene. Lisle was a good looking military man and much older than he looked. He was also an alcoholic, so were all of his 4 brothers. I am too lazy to go look up his birth date, if my Dad was born in 1917 and was the youngest brother, just know Lisle was born in earlier than that most likely around 1910. I don’t know where they met, she lived in Jersey and moved to the tiny town in Illinois where he was from and commenced to make babies;   3 of them all girls. I think they lived in Chicago some of the time. They fought, drank, and maybe even tried to stab one another. She went back to New Jersey and left the kids with him. She was soon killed in an auto accident. Well at some point my parents had to take the girls. By then they had seen a lot of the projects, cockroaches, beer, and who knows what. Loretta was the oldest and at some point developed petit- mal seizures. Each seizure caused  brain damage and eventually led to retardation. But, she was also mentally ill. I don’t know the diagnoses. Others in the family that I have stayed in touch with and including my immediate family has bipolar, personality disorders, OCD, and depression. But, we all have had treatment, became educated, and had loving supportive families. Loretta did not.

At some point  my parents had to institutionalize her. She was in Lincoln, Illinois for many years. We frequently visited her and would bring her to our house for holidays. She grew older and was a sexually active person apparently. There is even some talk that her Dad, who also moved to Lincoln, perhaps had a sexual relationship with her. He died in Lincoln, vomiting blood out of his apartment window yelling for help.  I remember in a snow storm my parents going to get the girls and what belongings he had left to bring to  our house and to bury him. The other 2 girls lived in the Illinois Soldiers and Sailors Children School in Bloomington, Illinois. 

Loretta  stayed in Lincoln for awhile and at some point was moved to Anna, Illinois. This facility also housed the mentally ill. She became pregnant. She agreed to put the baby up for adoption. Apparently the father was there for alcoholism. She also agreed to have a tubal ligation.   I am told a well meaning Social Worker talked her out of the tubal ligation. Shortly thereafter, my understanding is that Reagan closed all of the State Hospitals. Loretta was free. Free to what? I don’t know how she ended up in Chicago but there her new life started on government aid. She married a man who too had been released from Anna. They produced 2 sons. Her husband went to prison after being charged with murder. Loretta said he didn’t do it. A woman whose home Loretta  cleaned was robbed  killed and that was the end of that. Loretta has 2 sons to raise. I am pretty sure she did anything and everything to survive, including performing sex when she had to.   But, the boys got raised. They came once to visit my parents. I don’t think I was around or wanted to be around. Her 2 sisters would send her some money now and then, but neither one of them had the ability to oversee Loretta.