Posted on 12/17/2019 8:52:36 PM PST by Morgana
Eugenics remains alive and well among abortion activists.
And one of their favorite heroines, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, appears to be a proponent of it.
The 87-year-old justice brought up abortions for the poor Monday when she accepted the Berggruen Prize, according to WWD. The award usually is given to philosophers.
Im not a philosopher, but I do interpret a text, Ginsburg told a celebrity-studded audience. The text I interpret most often is the U.S. constitution; it is, indeed, a living constitution. Who would want to be governed by a dead one?
As she has in the past, Ginsburg brought up poor women as a reason for her support of abortion. Asked about the issue Monday:
Ginsburg noted that poor women are the only people being affected by lack of access to abortion.
One of the things that happened after Roe v. Wade is that women wanted to be able to control their own destiny. They won, so they retreated. And the other side geared up, and we have the situation that we have today, Ginsburg said. [People should] care about it the way they did when many women didnt have access, didnt have the right to choose. It is so obvious that the only people restricted are poor women. One day, I think people will wake up to that reality.
Though abortion activists paint such talk as sympathetic, their answer is not to help struggling women out of poverty but to abort their unborn babies.
In 2009, Ginsburg caused a stir when she made comments about Roe v. Wade that also seemed eugenic. In an interview with the New York Times, Ginsburg said made it appear she supported Roe for population control reasons.
Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we dont want to have too many of, Ginsburg told the New York Times.
Then, in 2014, she told Elle magazine something similar, It makes no sense as a national policy to promote birth only among poor people.
Ginsburg, who has become an idol of abortion activists, consistently rules against any abortion regulations that reach the high court.
In 2016, she was one of the five justices who sided with abortion activists in the decision Whole Womans Health v. Hellerstedt, which struck down Texas abortion clinic regulations that protected womens health and safety. Ginsburg and four other justices ruled that these safety regulations were an undue burden on womens access to abortion.
She also sided with the Obama administration in trying to force nuns with the Little Sisters of the Poor to pay for drugs that may cause abortions in their employee health care plans.
After a majority of the high court justices sided with Hobby Lobby in a similar case, Ginsburg accused them of being sexist. In an interview with pro-abortion media icon Katie Couric, Ginsburg lashed out at her colleagues and claimed they have a blind spot towards women because they decided that Hobby Lobby should not be forced to pay for drugs that may cause abortions for their employees.
Then, in May, Ginsburg criticized fellow Justice Clarence Thomas for referring to women who have abortions as mothers.
And in October, former President Bill Clinton admitted that abortion was a major factor in his decision to nominate Ginsburg to the U.S. Supreme Court.
If all the poor people have abortions who will peel her grapes?
I just wish that Miz Ginsberg’s mother had been able to take advantage of, and desirous of free and easy abortions.
How much better would her quality of life have been without Ruthie dragging her down!?!?!
That statement should remove her from SCOTUS.
The Constitution is absolute and means exactly what it states.
Poor women should have their tubes tied.
No murder needed.
I think what shes trying to say is that when abortion was outlawed middle class and rich woman were able to pay to go to a country where it was legal and get one. Poor women were stuck. From my readings on pre-Roe times it was common for rich woman to take vacations for this purpose.
Just because some women were willing to do that doesnt mean we should have legalized it in the name of fairness. In fact when abortion is outlawed again I think a better way to handle this is pregnancy test for woman traveling abroad. You leave the country pregnant and come back not pregnant your in trouble.
Just to clarify, thats what Id like to see done but I know its very unrealistic and impractical to give every women traveling abroad a pregnancy test.
We could also advance the argument anyone in her health situation should be put down...you know...to save money for the children.
Who would want to be governed by a dead one?
We have a supreme court justice that’s dead.
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