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."
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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.
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What a dumbass.
Justice Ginsburg needs to be schooled on what the proper role of judges are in US civil society.
She’s right though, that is the purpose behind Planned Parenthood. Blacks get far more abortions than whites. So that fits the PP mantra as well.
Maybe a visit from Kivorkian is in order
Hopefully that old bat can hold on till we get a new President.
By undesirables, Ginsburg meant people like our Marxist President. If America had Obama-care back in 1962, Obama’s mother would have been urged by counselers to abort baby Obama.
But.... I thought these nine robed wonders don’t make policy (like elminating undesirables would be a policy). I thought they held the Constitution up to the magic light and read the wisdom contained therein? Isn’t that how it’s supposed to work?
“Justice Ginsburg needs to be schooled on what the proper role of judges are in US civil society”
Of course, everyone knows its to set policy. Just as Soto
Such wisdom, and she’s not even Latina.
IMO, this is tremendous news and campaign fodder for someone who is willing to take it on.
Whatever, where is my Colt 45?
Yep, in the spirit of Rule #4, Ginsburg definitely should walk the talk.
She says what the great majority of the people of her class believe: that the best way to improve society is to weed out the unfit. That includes Down’s syndrome children, of course. Trig Palin ,for such people, is the modern equivalent of a half-black child, or a half-breed.
I guess she said it , but it wont matter. The media wont make a stink about it and tomorrow we will never see it again. It will dissappear.
Good catch!!!
She has every reason to step down now, from an ideological continuity standpoint. And, that’s exactly why she’s being so frank now, I’m afraid. She won’t be around to deal with the repercussions.
Look for this to get industrial strength suppression in the dominant media.
She’s probably correct in a circular logic.
Rush calls her, “Ruth Buzzy Ginsberg.” Too funny.
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