Posted on 07/08/2009 6:57:10 PM PDT by pissant
In an astonishing admission, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she was under the impression that legalizing abortion with the 1973 Roe. v. Wade case would eliminate undesirable members of the populace, or as she put it "populations that we don't want to have too many of."
Her remarks, set to be published in the New York Times Magazine this Sunday but viewable online now, came in an in-depth interview with Emily Bazelon titled, "The Place of Women on the Court."
(snip)
Question: Are you talking about the distances women have to travel because in parts of the country, abortion is essentially unavailable, because there are so few doctors and clinics that do the procedure? And also, the lack of Medicaid for abortions for poor women?
Ginsburg: Yes, the ruling about that surprised me. [Harris v. McRae – in 1980 the court upheld the Hyde Amendment, which forbids the use of Medicaid for abortions.] Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. Which some people felt would risk coercing women into having abortions when they didn't really want them. But when the court decided McRae, the case came out the other way. And then I realized that my perception of it had been altogether wrong.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
What a miserable wretch of a woman.
The world will be a better place without her.
If this isn't racism or social engineering, what is it? How can *any* minority feel comfortable with this?
I don’t know what you mean, potlatch. Me? Did you mis-post?
I don’t think so.
That’s reasonable, you’re probably right. (And isn’t it always better to give the benefit of the doubt?)
I know I read this and I believe it was on FR....that there are not as many or many down syndrome babies being born because they are being aborted?
What post of mine are you talking about, potlatch? I’m confused.
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Senate or SCOTUS
They hang on forever
I will grant you, that’s a good question and a good point. I’m just saying that she’s not explicitly endorsing eugenics in this interview; she’s railing against the evil men who are always lurking about, hoping for a chance to foil the pure pursuits of women. Your standard NOW stuff.
.......like illegitimate very black baby boys......born in Pinpoint, Georgia........using an outhouse.........raised by grandparents....................how dare they NOT have been aborted???
(I knew this the day SCOTUS Thosas was nominated.......and knew this was the reason liberals despised (and continue to despise) him. (Look up Harry Reid’s vile comments, suggesting How Dare CT be alive?)
Post #95. It just isn’t needed to get a statement across.
Not meaning to upset you but it just isn’t needed.
oh my God.
She actually admitted it. astounding!
Ummmm, she's a LIBERAL appointed by Bill Clinton - I fear the "undesirables" might be us - conservative Americans.
We are the people liberals hate...
Well, neither of them will hang on too long. I also saw how bad Helen Thomas looks now.
Have you gotten a screenshot, (before they scrub it)?
Let me throw some gasoline on the fire. I am absolutely opposed to abortion because I believe it to be a sin, and I oppose eugenics for the same reason. That said, the women who typically abort their babies are the ones statistically most likely to produce criminals. In addition, as Rush often cites, liberals are aborting their babies at rates much higher than conservatives. However, just because something has some benefit doesn’t make it morally right.
She probably has a special seat in hell saved for her.
"OMG piss. Thanks for posting this. Unbelievable."
THAT was my comment on the article he posted. I was THANKING him for posting this article.
What are you TALKING about?
And what do you mean I had another post deleted??? Where?
Regardless, she approved of it when her impression was wrong (or right in this case)
” If America had Obama-care back in 1962, Obama’s mother would have been urged by counselers to abort baby Obama.”
Are you suggesting he’s not a botched abortion?
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