Roe attorney: Use abortion to 'eliminate poor'

World Net Daily ^ | 13 May 2006

[Lurker]

In unearthed letter urged President-elect Clinton to 'reform' country

A letter to Bill Clinton written by the co-counsel who successfully argued the Roe v. Wade decision urged the then-president-elect to "eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of our country" by liberalizing abortion laws. Ron Weddington, who with his wife Sarah Weddington represented "Jane Roe," sent the four-page letter to President Clinton's transition team before Clinton took office in January 1993.

The missive turned up in an exhibit put together by the watchdog legal group Judicial Watch, which has been researching the Clinton administration's policy on the abortion drug RU-486, notes James Taranto in the Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web.

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Weddington qualified his statement, saying, "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.

"There, I've said it. It's what we all know is true, but we only whisper it, because as liberals who believe in individual rights, we view any program which might treat the disadvantaged differently as discriminatory, mean-spirited and ... well ... Republican

[Havoc]

We don't have a shortage, we have plenty of people out of work and underemployed because wages are stagnant from the glut of illegals and imported labor.

The problem isn't that we don't have enough laborers, the problem as the GOP sees it is not having enough nearly free labor.. you know, the kind of people that really don't deserve the fruit of their own labor as much as the bosses that would employ them illegally.. Throw away people in other words.. kinda like slaves but with some freedom..

[weegee]

Weddington qualified his statement, saying, "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.

"There, I've said it. It's what we all know is true, but we only whisper it, because as liberals who believe in individual rights, we view any program which might treat the disadvantaged differently as discriminatory, mean-spirited and ... well ... Republican

So does this mean that no significant effort should be made to combat crime, drugs, or disease in this country because it "thins the herd"? All law enforcement because a revenue stream at that point and medicine just another profit driven industry like entertainment and legal defense.

[Jeff Head]

The true throw-away people are those who have been aborted...and I believe there is a tie, both ideolgically and physically between the two...and many more of our ills.

[CindyDawg]

Scary to think that now a child shouldn't live because of something they "might" do in the future. IT sounds like that B movie about thought crime awhile back.

Anyway, I know of a lot of good people that were born to teenage moms, unwed moms, and even drug users.

[AliVeritas]

Maybe everyone needs to read this.

Check it out:
http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/X0474_Roe__v._Wade.html

[MSSC6644]

I'd crawl on my knees over broken glass to pull the lever for a Republican to keep these evil monsters (Democrats) away from the levers of power.

While we both might have difficulty crawling, Jim, I agree with the sentiment. The best action taken by President Bush has been the nomination of John Roberts and Samuel Alito. I applaud him for the courage and determination it took to choose and support two such sterling men to such important positions.

[Havoc]

The only reason there is a mutiny brewing is because people are buying into the negative spin on everything.

Negative spin... Negative spin. How do you spin exporting jobs negatively? When Americans need good paying jobs and companies send those jobs overseas and put americans out of work because they would rather not pay Americans to do American service jobs.. The spin is trying to put that in a good light. The Greatest generation would have shot you traitors for it.

How do you spin amnesty for illegals negatively? Tell the truth? They won't deport them because they want cheap labor even though they'r aliens broke the law in getting here, the businessmen break the law by hiring them, and law enforcement comspires with politicians not to enforce the law. That is RICO worthy. How do you spin that negatively? That's just the raw truth. Illegals are impacting the job market, undermining wages and benefits, etc.. we all know the list of ills a mile long that goes with the illegals.. Threat to security, etc. But, suddenly, the party of 'rule of law' that 'can be trusted with national security' suddenly can't be trusted with security or to uphold the rule of law because of money. Can't spin that badly either.. telling the truth is bad enough.

[weegee]

All that, simply to pander to the religious beliefs of a minority who persist in claiming that a collection of cells, without reason or awareness, is human life with something called a soul.

It was religious people who insisted that black Africans were more than just property that could be kept, sold, kept hostage, forced to work without pay, and killed as slaves.

And it is the amoral left who insist that this "collection of cells" magically becomes a person when it leaves the womb. Even if that is premature birth nursed in an incubator. Partial delivery of the head (which is punctured and BRAIN sucked out) doesn't count as a life.

[AliVeritas]

You're also murdering doctors, lawyers, American workers who would be paying into social security and taxes... not to mention future members of the military. So I guess you love the idea of illegals then... cheaper right? I bet you love their kids (those who have the kids, rule the world). No one looks at the moral implications of it... it's not just get rid of it and that's it. It affects all of society. Not just migration.

[weegee]

It isn't even the labor. It's the votes. They see 11million potential voters and don't want to have them AND their legal resident families and those who share their heritage to become another 98% Democrat voting block.

Democrats have no problems with employing these people below minimum wage either. Look at the Clinton appointees who harbored illegal immigrants to work in their homes.

[wmfights]

You know, WE ARE GOING TO WIN!

You know how I know, because we are on the side of what's right.

[AliVeritas]

Wait till you see the Planned Parenthood Mother's Day E-Card drive:
http://ppfa.org/pp2/portal/

If that's not twisted... what is.

[Jeff Head]

That is exactly right...in the end, right will win out. We do know how the story ends.

But there are fights, travail, and hardship between now and then...and forces dedicated to evil and erronious, totalitarian principles and ideologies... and we cannot afford to let our guard or passion down for an instant.

[Havoc]

I don't buy that. Doesn't make real sense and they've come clean on wanting cheap labor.

[CindyDawg]

he true throw-away people are those who have been aborted

HMM. People make terrible mistakes but the really worthless people IMO are the ones that kill innocent children and have no remorse.

[ElkGroveDan]

Let the spinning begin.

[weegee]

Actually there were movies about this back in the 1930s when the policies were implemented in Hitler's Germany and FDR's America.

Tomorrow's Children (1934)

A well meaning but misguided doctor reports to the court that Alice's family is made up of "drunks, cripples and idiots" and suggests that the whole family be ordered by the court to be sterilised to prevent them for siring any more societal misfits like themselves.

Science fiction? A look into a possible Orwellian future? A warning against a Totalitarian government? Sorry but this is all true! When this movie was made 28 states had laws allowing mandatory sterilisation of criminals and people the courts deemed "unfit".

[hinckley buzzard]

I'm not buying that a moderately cogent person with any scruples and legal training would plant such a bomb under his own arse.

No doubt he never thought that his letter would see the public light of day.

It may be useful to recall that eugenics was a strong progressive movement until the defeat and exposure of the Nazi evils made it into a dirty word. Consequently, this guy doesn't come right out and espouse eugenics, but he would if it were PC to do so.

Plenty of "moderately cogent persons" have held to this kind of impulse toward imrpovement of the species throughout the last cetnury.("Three generations of imbeciles is enough"--Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes)

[ElkGroveDan]

We all knew this was their attitude. This is entirely consistent with Margaret Sanger's writings.

[weegee]

and they've come clean on wanting cheap labor.

It was Geraldo Rivera who said we'd be paying "$10 for a head of bananas". Is he Republican? Just because someone is on Fox does not mean they speak for the GOP.

Similar statements have come from elected Democrats.

The answer is to lower the minimum wage, not to disregard the lawful wage, the immigration program, and look the other way on falsified ID.