Interesting how when a liberal Supreme Court justice makes a comment like this in the NY Times Magazine, it does not even merit a mention or notice. I would like to think that it merely points out the increasing irrelevance of the NY Times. Alas we all know what would happen if a conservative made a similar statement.
As noted before in this blog, Planned Parenthood not only will not distance itself from its eugenics origins, it celebrates its founder and the author of its eugenics manifesto. To those who naively think that is merely an unnecessary symbolic gesture and that nothing like that remains in the pro-abortion, radical feminist agenda, consider the recent words of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Again, a justice on the Supreme Court quoted in the NY Times Magazine and this is likely the first you’ve read about it. An excerpt:
Q: 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?
JUSTICE 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.
Of course, there was no follow-up question asking, “Justice Ginsburg, which populations are those that we don’t want to have too many of?”
Perhaps some day, we’ll learn. Full article here.
2 Comments
August 24, 2009 at 3:41 am
I’m flabbergasted!
December 5, 2009 at 2:47 pm
The MSM is not going to question Gingsberg because they agree with her assessment as to eliminating “excess populations.” Her real name is Scroogeberg.