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Ginsburg: I thought Roe was to rid undesirables
WND ^ | 7/8/09 | staff

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."

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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: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: abortion; baderginsburg; bigotry; cullingtheherd; eugenics; ginsberg; ginsburg; lping; moralabsolutes; nazi; overpopulation; prolife; racist; rbg; ruthbaderginsburg; undesirables
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To: pissant

Well, she would be on top of the list.


61 posted on 07/08/2009 7:21:34 PM PDT by boomop1
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To: phatus maximus

The same undesirables that Hitler and Margret Sanger wanted to rid the world of; blacks, Down’s children, Jews, etc.


62 posted on 07/08/2009 7:22:46 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is the belief that most people are better off if everyone was equally poor and miserable.)
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To: Tax-chick
She’s gotten so old and senile that she’s telling the truth in public. Fascinating.

She's old and senile. Joe Biden is just plain stooopid.

63 posted on 07/08/2009 7:22:49 PM PDT by Free State Four
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To: pissant

Wow.


64 posted on 07/08/2009 7:23:03 PM PDT by lmr (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: pissant

The agenda exposed, at last.


65 posted on 07/08/2009 7:23:06 PM PDT by joe.fralick
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To: bamahead

I just don’t know what to say....


66 posted on 07/08/2009 7:27:14 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: pissant
That is the exact reasoning Howard Stern gave for supporting abortion.

Maybe she can get a Satellite deal.

67 posted on 07/08/2009 7:27:29 PM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: narses; pissant

Pro-Life bump


68 posted on 07/08/2009 7:27:37 PM PDT by Dajjal (Obama is an Ericksonian NLP hypnotist.)
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To: pissant

An honest liberal — for once.


69 posted on 07/08/2009 7:27:47 PM PDT by patriot preacher (To be a good American Citizen and a Christian IS NOT a contradiction. (www.mygration.blogspot.com))
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To: the Real fifi

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.


70 posted on 07/08/2009 7:28:40 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

bookmark


71 posted on 07/08/2009 7:29:21 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: potlatch

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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!)


72 posted on 07/08/2009 7:29:30 PM PDT by devolve (- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sarah Palin 2012 - - - - - -)
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To: americanophile
Yet she survives.

... and Zero wants more like her.

73 posted on 07/08/2009 7:29:48 PM PDT by reg45 (Be calm everyone. The idiot children are in charge!)
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To: pissant

“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.


74 posted on 07/08/2009 7:29:55 PM PDT by calico_thompson
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To: pissant

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.


75 posted on 07/08/2009 7:30:25 PM PDT by visualops (portraits.artlife.us or visit my freeper page)
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To: pke

Ruth Bader Dimbulb


76 posted on 07/08/2009 7:31:25 PM PDT by reg45 (Be calm everyone. The idiot children are in charge!)
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To: visualops

I read it. So then by extension she was vigorously opposed to it until 1980 when the light bulb finally flickered?


77 posted on 07/08/2009 7:31:30 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant
An accidental stark moment of clarity.

Precisely.

Just imagine the reaction if, say, Samuel Alito had said this...

78 posted on 07/08/2009 7:32:50 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: potlatch
Unbelievable! Wonder if she wanted blond, blue eyed kids only...like Hitler.

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.

79 posted on 07/08/2009 7:32:59 PM PDT by Wissa ("So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause."-Padme Amidala)
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To: visualops

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.


80 posted on 07/08/2009 7:33:05 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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