Posted on 05/12/2006 11:52:13 PM PDT by Lurker
In unearthed letter urged President-elect Clinton to 'reform' country
A letter to Bill Clinton written by the co-counsel who successfully argued the Roe v. Wade decision urged the then-president-elect to "eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of our country" by liberalizing abortion laws. Ron Weddington, who with his wife Sarah Weddington represented "Jane Roe," sent the four-page letter to President Clinton's transition team before Clinton took office in January 1993.
The missive turned up in an exhibit put together by the watchdog legal group Judicial Watch, which has been researching the Clinton administration's policy on the abortion drug RU-486, notes James Taranto in the Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web.
Weddington qualified his statement, saying, "No, I'm not advocating some sort of mass extinction of these unfortunate people. Crime, drugs and disease are already doing that. The problem is that their numbers are not only replaced but increased by the birth of millions of babies to people who can't afford to have babies.
"There, I've said it. It's what we all know is true, but we only whisper it, because as liberals who believe in individual rights, we view any program which might treat the disadvantaged differently as discriminatory, mean-spirited and ... well ... Republican
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I agree.
Thanks for the *ping*
"use abortion to eliminate the poor"? WHAT are these people ON?
I'm generally quite an optimistic person, but these people and the dreck they supposedly believe is astounding.
Weddington was(is?) a very nice guy who is a fanatic.
"For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them; but you do not always have Me."
- Mark 14:7
The same could be said of Pol Pot. (I hope you were not a friend of his as well.)
I feel compelled to come to Rhino's defense here. Such a policy would be evil if governments were given the power to pre-determine who shall be born, as indeed they were in the days of the eugenics movement.
I'm for unlimited access to birth control so PARENTS can choose when they shall have children. Let's face it: in our hearts, we know Margaret Sanger was right in claiming that unwanted children tend to become social liabilities in the next generation.
"Why do you think the crime rate has dropped so steadily in the past 40 years? We are murdering would be criminals before they are born. Its not worth the cost in human life but its a real result from abortion."
Sounds good to me. Capital punishment for those who MIGHT grow up to be criminals.
"Everytime I get in an argument with my liberal relatives, about why we can't put in place all the utopian ideals they have, the argument always gets around to them saying "there's just too many people on earth -- we need to get rid of some of them.""
Why not ask them if they will volunteer to be first? Their children, too.
And if it were truly spreading prosperity that you were concerned with, the foreign workers would be paid american wages. They aren't. See how easy those copouts are wiped off the map.Where did I say that I was concerned ONLY with spreading prosperity? Try arguing against what I write, not against the voices in your head.
There are a number of reasons that your proposal doesn't work. One is that the prosperity (which I think would be spread over the long term, but you want it spread yesterday) is )notionally, not actually) confined to those foreign workers if they are paid US type wages. Add cost of shipping to the higher wages and it makes more sense to keep production here -- which does neither the foreign worker nor the domestic consumer any good.
Currently the foreign workers get the jobs because they will work for less than the domestic workers. They better themselves by taking those jobs, and they provide benefits to their families which they don't find elsewhere. Capital flows into their country, they can use it to develop means of production and to grow more wealthy. Their children and grandcjhildren will want (and get) higher wages.
What you suggest is to make it not worth our while to outsource production. The domestic consumer does not benefit and the foreign worker does not benefit. Your suggestion ends up doing no one any good, but it gives you the chance to feel that if matters over which you currently have next to no control were done YOUR way, things would be ever so much better because you are such a good and compassionate person.
If you can't rent an apartment and the rest on what you earn, then maybe you can't afford to live alone. Or is living alone a right that others should subsidize? IN the Soviet Union, where the policies and compassion you seem to admire governed society and the economy,living space, being price controlled, was at a scarcity. And when wages are controlled as you think t hey should be, jobs end up becoming more scarce and productivity declines. Far fewer people prosper.
I did not realize that I kind of hypostasize the entire Republican party throughout its entire spectrum, and that consequently you can accuse me of something I never did or said.
When the Dems were in power, we threw them out. It took us a while, but we did it by telling the truth about them. Now Democrats and their running dogs in the drive-by media are lying about the Republicans. As Adlai Stevenson did NOT say, I'll never stop telling the truth about your positions even if you quit lying about mine.You can call that whining if you like. I call it taking over Congress and the Supreme Court and the White House and I kind of like it. Of course those of you who think that rapes and sexual harassment are FINE if done by somebody who will pander to your delusions may disagree. That's okay with me.
Speaking of truth and taxes, Since the Bush Tax cut, the wealthy pay a greater per centage of what government spends than they did before. You are so busy thinking of insults that you don't realize that your stand leads to lower revenues with a higher share paid by the middle class than our stand. You'd rather everyone paid tax, that everyone had to give more to the government, than that both individuals and the government had more.
It may be that the reason you can't afford to live as you like is that real estate prices in could cuckoo land are out of your range. There's more money to be had and cheaper rent to be paid in the real world. Find a friend to live in, learn how to do something that somebody will pay you to do, and enjoy life for a change. You'll have more money to give to charity when you have to pay less for the SUVs driven by DemocRAT congresscritters and the hordes of MSWs to tell you how to live your life if you want to keep your children.
Have a nice rant.
Most people have they same reaction when they meet Havoc the first time.
The dirty little secret is it's not the poor who are having abortions 24/7. It's the middle class onward to the upperclass who can afford them who use abortion as means of birth control.
Should have pinged you to 190.
Now you may be someone who doesn't factor God into much in life, and you may not think He has a place in matters of whether babies, whom He creates by the way, get to be born or get to be eviserated. That's your right. However, we then again run up against those pesky facts of history, like I mentioned above. That kind of puts to the lie the notion that man is qualified to make decisions about life and death. And I certainly have yet to meet the person so all-wise and divine that he has the ability to know what kind of person an unborn child will be, based on who his parents are.
And we have to face the facts about Margaret Sanger- unpleasant though they may be- that she was a racist, religous bigot, genocidial maniac; a woman full of hate and bitterness because of her own poverty-stricken childhood. A woman who set herself up as God and inflicted her own anger on those human beings who were, because of poverty and lack of education, ill-equiped to defend themselves against her rage-fueled fanatism. That is the unfortunate truth about Margaret Sanger.
And I'd be careful about issuing blanket statements on "unwanted children". Every child is wanted by God, is created by Him, and has a purpose in His creation. It is not the place of sin-sick human beings, in thier finite, limited, fallen minds, to decide who lives and who dies. It's bad enough that this nation has legalized the slaughter of innocents so that people can continue in thier sin and not be bothered with the consequences; let's not make it worse by trying to find ways to justify it.
Weddington wouldn't harm a fly. He reminds me of the inquisitors who believed that in order to save the soul, one sometime had to kill the body.
He wants to spar people pain by killing them before they experience it.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110007679
I'm with you, Jim.
bump
Use euthanasia to remove many of the lawyers among us.
So are you claiming that parents who use birth control to determine when their children shall be conceived are doing what Stalin and Hitler and Mao did?
L
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