Smells like sabotage...ends justifying means: I'd want some verification and stuff.
Also consider the source: JW is not without stain.
I'm just darn skeptical.
Not impossible....just unlikely as heck.
Do you really think that people who advocate the abortion of millions have scruples?
If you still don't believe it, read Mr. Weddington's own words in the New York Times:
To the Editor:
Re "30 Years After Abortion Ruling, New Trends but the Old Debate" (front page, Jan. 20):
But for Roe v. Wade, millions more children would have been born into poverty, where they would be greeted by Congress and the state legislators who failed to provide money for day care, health care, education or job training.
Millions more would have joined the ranks of welfare recipients and the homeless, the populations of prisons, prostitutes and drug addicts.
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.
As co-counsel in Roe v. Wade, I applaud the determination of J'Vante Anderson, the young woman in your article, to break the cycle of teenage mothers. But if her vow of abstinence fails, I hope that she can fall back on abortion, for her future and ours.
RON WEDDINGTON
Austin, Tex., Jan. 20, 2003
It's certainly well-documented that the purpose of much of the eugenics and birth control movements in the late 19th and first half of the 20th century were expressly intended to reduce and/or eliminate (over time) the 'inferior stock' in our population, whether native born poor whites (think "Five generations of idiots is enough!") and blacks, or Eastern/Southern European immigrants. (Recall at that time Asians were forbidden from immigrating)
30th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
Where have you been? This was started for the purpose of eugenics.
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)
How is this going to hurt *him*, sometimes someone might be smart enough to be a lawyer and evil enough not to see what they are saying is horrifying.. Mao was a college student..
I agree.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110007679
I see your point, but here's three things to consider:
1. She has never been hailed by anyone (except maybe some hardcore abortion promoters) for her scruples.
2. The abortion movement has always been about removing "undesirables" from the population. Margaret Sanger spoke about it plainly when she started this ball rolling, to the point that she used her magazine to praise the Nazi eugenics programs and even had the Nazi Minister of Racial Hygiene write a feature article in 1937.
3. In any case, Weddington is one record as believing that the solution to the difficult situations in a womans life is to cut her child into pieces and move on. Such a person would certainly see abortion as beneficial and Clinton as an ally in promoting it.
Here's a link to Taranto's page. After following this issue for a lot of years, I'm figuring this is genuine, and I'll predict that we won't see Weddington emerge next week to scream "Forgery!"
Well, now I've gone and made myself look like a first class idiot--I thought we were talking about sarah Weddington, not her ex-husband Ron. Well, my comments still stand.
Margret Sanger was an open advocate of eugenics through abortion.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1631334/posts
Wall Street Opionion Journal accepts this as a genuine article.
If you read Weddington's book, you will see that what the guy said is really what those people believe.
How many tapes did Richard Nixon make?