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Pro-choice lawyer who drafted Roe: “Abortion should eliminate the poor”
Clinic Quotes ^ | Sarah Terzo

Posted on 01/11/2015 6:16:01 PM PST by Morgana

Ron Weddington, one of the attorneys who drafted the brief for abortion rights in Roe V Wade, wrote a private letter to President-elect Bill Clinton arguing for the state to use abortion as population control. This letter was written in 1992:

“[Y]ou can start immediately to eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of our country. 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. In 1989, 27% of all births were to unmarried mothers, a huge percentage of whom were teenagers. If current trends continue, soon a majority of the babies born will be born into poverty and one half of the country cannot support the other half, no matter how good our intentions. I am not proposing that you send federal agents armed with Depo-Provera dart guns to the ghetto. You should use persuasion rather than coercion. You and Hillary are a perfect example. Could either of you have gone to law school and achieved anything close to what you have if you had three or four more children before you were 20? No! You waited until you were established in your 30s to have one child. That is what sensible people do.… It’s time to officially recognize that people are going to have sex and what we need to do as a nation is prevent as much disease and as many poor babies as possible. Condoms alone won’t do it. Depo-Provera, Norplant and the new birth control injection being developed in India are not a complete answer… No, government is going to have to provide vasectomies, tubal ligations and abortions… RU-486 and conventional abortions. Even if we make birth control as ubiquitous as sneakers and junk food, there will still be unplanned pregnancies. There have been about 30 million abortions in this country since Roe V Wade. Think of all the poverty, crime and misery… And then add 30 million unwanted babies to the scenario.”

Ron Weddington is the husband of Sarah Weddington, one of the two lawyers who argued for abortion in Roe Vs. Wade

Quoted in Taylor Carmichael The Seen and the Unseen: Abortion and the Supreme Court (Amazon Digital Services, 2014)


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; History
KEYWORDS: 1992; abortion; bidenvoters; billclinton; clinicquotes; communismkills; deathpanels; eugenics; jonathangruber; killthepoor; obamacare; prolife; roevswade; roevwade; ronweddington; ru486; sarahweddington; slickwilly; socialengineering; theysaidit; weddington; zerocare; zpg
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To: Morgana

its all about the eugenics...black folk...listen up....you’re being eliminated whether you see it and accept it or not....and this is being done deliberately...


21 posted on 01/11/2015 6:40:32 PM PST by cherry
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To: ClearCase_guy

The titans of industry realized their only cheap labor is in China or illegals in this country so the Chamber of Commerece is behind the legalize the illegals movement.

The only thing broken in our immigration laws is the enforcement part.


22 posted on 01/11/2015 6:44:04 PM PST by alpo
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To: ClearCase_guy
Just for the sake of discussion, suppose some conservative types were to simply use Liberal suggestions on Liberals.

Taken to the logical conclusion:
The national IQ bell curve profile would move 50% to the right,
Religious tolerance would return,
Chicago, New York and San Francisco, in fact most major urban areas, would be deserted examples of the "After Humans" program,

Still looking for the downside, here...

23 posted on 01/11/2015 6:45:19 PM PST by jonascord (It's sarcasm unless otherwise noted...)
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To: heartwood

the only solutions that come natural to men and women, are those that end in death.


24 posted on 01/11/2015 6:45:36 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Morgana

Those bothersome “other” people. Always clogging up the highways and beaches.


25 posted on 01/11/2015 6:49:43 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: cherry

“its all about the eugenics...black folk...listen up....you’re being eliminated whether you see it and accept it or not....and this is being done deliberately...”

...and you, along with your leadership are all on board with it.


26 posted on 01/11/2015 6:49:47 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (quod est Latine morositate)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

its not really about the “poor”...the word unsaid is “black”....you know it and I know it....its the leftist little secret that all they do and all they want is eliminating the “problem” people of the world...blacks, disabled, mentally challenged, etc....


27 posted on 01/11/2015 6:51:18 PM PST by cherry
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To: cherry

Without a God they don’t see a way to turn a problem into an advantage...

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR


28 posted on 01/11/2015 6:54:35 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: cherry

(unless it is an advantage for creating chaos, but I don’t speak of that kind of “advantage”)


29 posted on 01/11/2015 6:55:23 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: dowcaet
The Clintons are smart enough to realize that the poor, uneducated, crime ridden, drug addicted population are the base of the Democrat party.
30 posted on 01/11/2015 6:58:48 PM PST by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: Morgana

We have way too many Liberal Lawyers. So here is my idea to address that issue. Each time a Liberal Lawyer looses a case the lawyer must surrender their very life. This way only the best and strongest Liberal Lawyers will be living. I wonder how he would like my plan to eliminate weak Liberal Lawyers? /extreme sarcasm


31 posted on 01/11/2015 7:00:30 PM PST by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: VerySadAmerican
> The Clintons “waited until Webb Hubbell got drunk and got Hillary pregnant in her 30s.”

What in heaven's name is that a quote from? Please provide a cite -- I'd love to read the context as well.

32 posted on 01/11/2015 7:02:11 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: Morgana

Ghouls.


33 posted on 01/11/2015 7:06:04 PM PST by onedoug
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To: jonascord
Still looking for the downside, here...
I see where you're going with it, but there's still that tricky bit about eternal damnation... I believe we are stuck thinning the democrats the hard way.
34 posted on 01/11/2015 7:24:12 PM PST by jaydee770
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To: Morgana

Margret Sanger would be proud!


35 posted on 01/11/2015 7:25:52 PM PST by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Blue Collar Christian; cherry

Eugenics? Black genocide?

Not at all. The welfare system provides incentives for the dysfunctional of any race to have babies. High crime and bad schools are the incentives for the achieving of any race to move away, insulate their children, have fewer children because insulation is expensive. Add to that consumerism, careerism, and misguided feminism.

The black population is increasing relative to the white population in this country. The ratio used to be about 1 to 9; now it is 1 to 6; among babies born in the last few years it is greater than 1 to 4. More whites died than were born last year.

The Left is doing better at auto-genocide of Whites by contraception than it is of Blacks by abortion.

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/cspan/1940census/CSPAN_1940slides.pdf


36 posted on 01/11/2015 7:47:26 PM PST by heartwood
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To: Morgana

It’s not “pro choice”. It’s *pro abortion*.

“Choice” implies that they believe pro life also has standing, i.e. it can legitimately be a choice. They don’t say that, and they don’t believe it.


37 posted on 01/11/2015 7:51:06 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: Morgana

He dudnt foresee The One making so many millions more people poor


38 posted on 01/11/2015 8:06:18 PM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..)
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To: Morgana

BFLR


39 posted on 01/11/2015 8:18:09 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: Morgana

And Hillary Clinton responded by writing five pro-abortion executive orders that were signed by her husband first thing when he got to the White House the very day of his Inauguration.


40 posted on 01/11/2015 8:29:47 PM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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