What the hell did Ruth Bader Ginsburg mean when she linked abortion and eugenics?

Telegraph.co.uk ^ | July 12th, 2009 | Damian Thompson

[fiodora]

The mainstream media have been incredibly slow to pick up on a creepy comment by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a New York Times interview published today but flagged last week. In it, Ginsburg talks about on Roe v Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalised abortion:

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.

What? You can find the full context of the remark here, in the Times interview, but it doesn’t settle matters. And the (pro-choice) media haven’t exactly jumped on the story. Bloggers are incredulous.

Huge sites too like Hot Air featured the story prominently. Even Drudge ran with the story yesterday.

But as of this morning the mainstream media have completely ignored the story about one of the most powerful people in the country essentially endorsing eugenics on populations “we don’t want to have too many of”.

What the heck is going on here?

As the large metropolitan newspapers die, they’re wondering why. This is why.

[A Navy Vet]

" She's right. Mommy Earth was going to be destroyed by too many humans. We were all going to die of starvation. That was the '70s Socialist Hoax, perpetuated in an effort to control the people by the left. Today we have Global Warming. Different Hoax Scare, Same Socialist Goal!'

Sheesh, even though I was a no-load Harley rider back in the 70's, even I watched the news from time to time and had the commonsense to know that the Earth's population wasn't going to starve us into oblivion.

Population agenda driven dumb shits then; global warming dumb shits now. Oops, I forgot the 70's Ice Age and Ozone depletion dumb shit predictions of planetary catastrophe that NEVER happened. How'd that work out, you brilliant scientists?

[A Navy Vet]

The up side is that Ginsberg will be the next to leave. So, unless Bambi gets a third nomination, it will remain status quo. Two bleeding-heart racist NWO socialists for two of the same.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Damian Thompson : "But as of this morning the mainstream media have completely ignored the story about one of the most powerful people in the country essentially endorsing eugenics on populations “we don’t want to have too many of”. "

The secret societies have a grinning, glad-handing puppet in there as president who openly promotes abortion and embryonic stem cell research at Notre Dame while accepting a doctoral degree, nodding and winking flashing hand signals, signs an executive order to fund global abortion and population control in Third World countries with U.S. tax dollars, whose handlers like Soros openly say they want population control.

The media elites attend the same seminars and meetings where they discuss population control as their main priority. Bill Clinton lets slip openly they want to "slow down our economy" because of global warming. It's no secret they want coercive population control from abortion or vaccines. Liberalism and secular humanism are ALL about eugenics, population control, and Social Darwinism. They would make abortion coercive and mandatory like in China and make Christianity illegal if they could get away with it.

Ruth was just stating openly in a crude way what they talk about all the time.

[metalurgist]

The pain killer drugs the bitch takes for her cancer made her drop her guard.

May she spend her last days screaming in agony, just as a prelude of what her shriveled soul will have to endure for eternity.

[metalurgist]

Let's see, order of events: Some "trigger" creating great unrest. Martial law put into place, confiscation of firearms

I don't know about you, but the chain of events for me and a whole lot of them stops right here.

"Tis better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." (Someone famous)

[advertising guy]

a year ago I said if Pelosi Galore is not removed as Speaker in 2010, all we have done is put 4 new tires on Armaggeden

[throwback]

Q: Since we are talking about abortion, I want to ask you about Gonzales v. Carhart, the case in which the court upheld a law banning so-called partial-birth abortion. Justice Kennedy in his opinion for the majority characterized women as regretting the choice to have an abortion, and then talked about how they need to be shielded from knowing the specifics of what they’d done. You wrote, “This way of thinking reflects ancient notions about women’s place in the family and under the Constitution.” I wondered if this was an example of the court not quite making the turn to seeing women as fully autonomous.

JUSTICE GINSBURG: The poor little woman, to regret the choice that she made. Unfortunately there is something of that in Roe. It’s not about the women alone. It’s the women in consultation with her doctor. So the view you get is the tall doctor and the little woman who needs him.

Using a coat hanger on yourself in your on home is autonomous. A taxpayer funded abortion in a publicly funded institution by a tall doctor is not. Little did I realize that this seemingly bookish, homely, wallflower was such a viper.

[GraceG]

[throwback]

You'd know I'd almost think Limbaugh was on to something about feminism being a tool of ugly women, but then there are women like Palin and my wife that don't fit the theory.