Posted on 07/10/2009 7:08:21 PM PDT by lewisglad
In an interview to be published in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she thought the landmark Roe v. Wade decision on abortion was predicated on the Supreme Court majority's desire to diminish “populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”
In the 90-minute interview in Ginsburg’s temporary chambers, Ginsburg gave the Times her perspective on Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s first high court nomination. She also discussed her views on abortion.
Her comment about her belief that the court had wanted to limit certain populations through abortion came after the interviewer asked Ginsburg: “If you were a lawyer again, what would you want to accomplish as a future feminist agenda?”
Reproductive choice has to be straightened out,” Ginsburg said. “There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe (to make abortion legal) are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise, and I don’t know why this hasn’t been said more often.”
Ginsburg discussed her surprise at the outcome of Harris v. McRae, a 1980 decision that upheld the Hyde Amendment, which prohibited the use of Medicaid and other federal funds for abortions.
What do you mean “thought”? The founder of Planned Barrenhood, Margaret Sanger explicitly pointed out that what abortion was for.
Margaret Sanger would be so proud...
Guess she thinks that about the Nazis as well. *rolls eyes in disgust*
Love to hear her argument when she faces the ultimate judge, Jesus.
Wonder if Sotomayor belongs to one of those groups whose size Ginsberg wishes to limit? Perhaps she could elaborate just which ethnic groups she was referring to.
A true disciple of Margaret Sanger.
It is instructive (but no surprise) that Buzzy nowhere mentions the Constitution as the basis of any decision.
Nevermind that they all swore an oath to uphold it.
Not only are this woman’s hands covered in the blood of the innocent, she’s up to her neck in it.
This bitch is beyond crazy and should be impeached
The liberals are aborting themselves out of existence. In another few generations they will be an insignificant part of the population, and America will be restored to greatness.
Bizarre and Crazy! Liberalism is a Disease, Ruth is proof!
Aside from the main quote, I don’t even know what the hell she is talking about that we only have “reprocuctive rights” guaranteed for rich people. She is a leftist kook, absolutely out of her mind.
I know what she’s talking about, before Roe the libs were all up in arms because a “rich” woman could travel to a pro abortion state, but the poor woman would be “stuck” in her state with no abortions. And she views the govt not paying for an abortion as an injustice.
As if a damn abortion is the most important thing to fund with taxpayer money.
Think she'll listen to Him? He's a Jew. She's a JINO.
To a majority of women, abortion is the only cause to vote on.
Here’s the link to Sunday’s article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/magazine/12ginsburg-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine
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