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."
(snip)
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Well, she would be on top of the list.
The same undesirables that Hitler and Margret Sanger wanted to rid the world of; blacks, Down’s children, Jews, etc.
She's old and senile. Joe Biden is just plain stooopid.
Wow.
The agenda exposed, at last.
I just don’t know what to say....
Maybe she can get a Satellite deal.
Pro-Life bump
An honest liberal — for once.
If she thought that was what Roe meant back then, then we can easily go back and see that she vigorously opposed it, right?
After all, I’m sure she was dead set against such a ruling, being the cofounder of the Women’s Rights Law Reporter and being an ACLU stooge, and all.
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I am amazed she said this to the media
If Ginsberg wanted to outpopulate some others - she had her chance to contribute to that agenda and passed
Some groups have a really low replacement rate - that is their own fault
Ginsberg sounds just like Sanger :
“In 1939, Margaret Sanger organized a “Negro project” to eliminate what she called an “inferior race.” She claimed, “The masses of Negroes.....”
(Hey! I was a blond blue-eyed kid once!)
... and Zero wants more like her.
“populations that we don’t want to have too many of.” - like the Jews Ms. Ginsburg? Sort of ironic if it wasn’t so tragic.
You should read the whole interview at NY Times. The WND quotes are rather misleading. She goes on to say she realized her perception(about Roe v Wade) was wrong.
Ruth Bader Dimbulb
I read it. So then by extension she was vigorously opposed to it until 1980 when the light bulb finally flickered?
Precisely.
Just imagine the reaction if, say, Samuel Alito had said this...
That kind of racism is easy to counteract by changing the makeup of the court. Sotomayor thinks the blond, blue eyed ones are the undesireables, so it'll balance out now.
Here’s NARAL’s take:
Justice Ginsburg is one of the strongest supporters of the right to choose on the Supreme Court. Her opinions while on the Court, as well as her professional activities prior to becoming a federal court judge in 1980, demonstrate her commitment to the constitutional rights of privacy and choice.
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