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Justice Ginsburg: I Thought Roe v. Wade Was to Get Rid of Undesirables....
World Net Daily ^ | July 08, 2009

Posted on 07/09/2009 4:53:27 AM PDT by IronKros

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."

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; baderginsburg; eugenics; ginsburg; roevswade; roevwade
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To: IronKros

As the saying goes..Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.


21 posted on 07/09/2009 6:36:52 AM PDT by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: IronKros

You old shriveled-up shrew. Don’t let the door hit your bony a$$ on the way out of the SC.


22 posted on 07/09/2009 7:28:09 AM PDT by mancini
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To: IronKros
Get rid of populations like this, Justice Ginsburg? What happened to the protection of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?


23 posted on 07/09/2009 8:59:28 AM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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To: Salvation
What happened to the protection of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?

Yeah, well that's only for "desirable populations", isn't it?

24 posted on 07/09/2009 9:05:34 AM PDT by TChris (There is no freedom without the possibility of failure.)
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To: IronKros

RBG wrote an article some years back advocating the age of consent for sex between adults and minors be lowered to 11 years old.


25 posted on 07/09/2009 10:20:13 AM PDT by stockpirate (The movement to take back America has already started, Sarah is her name.)
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To: IronKros
WOW, what incredible racism and just plain evilness. Is she saying that Roe is the "final solution" to the "undesirable problem"? (IE:black, poor, uneducated, useless eaters, etc.)

She should resign immediately.

26 posted on 07/09/2009 10:28:44 AM PDT by A. Patriot (CZ 52's ROCK)
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To: IronKros
Why Politicized Science is Dangerous by Michael Crichton.
27 posted on 07/09/2009 12:05:08 PM PDT by Sister_T
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