Friday, July 10, 2009

The Ugly Truth

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."

I believe we have "too many of" people like Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

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3 comments:

SkyePuppy said...

Based on where Planned Parenthood usually sets up shop, they're trying to eliminate the Darkies.

Disgusting!!! And Ginsburg is one of the people making decisions for our entire country!

7/10/2009 12:41 PM
Malott said...

I suppose it was too much to ask for Ruth to have used the word darkies. That would be a little too honest and up front.

7/10/2009 4:50 PM
paw said...

I know it's no fun to actually go back to the source for all the junk that is pumped at you every day and that it's a lot more fun to sit back and be offended or outraged or whatever and then pass that along. I'll help condense this down for you: Ginsburg is describing an argument she feared might be true. Take care.

source

Q: If you were a lawyer again, what would you want to accomplish as a future feminist legal agenda?

JUSTICE GINSBURG: Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that had changed their abortion laws before Roe [to make abortion legal] are not going to change back. So we have a policy that affects only poor women, and it can never be otherwise, and I don’t know why this hasn’t been said more often.

Q: 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?

JUSTICE 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.

Q: When you say that reproductive rights need to be straightened out, what do you mean?

JUSTICE GINSBURG: The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.

7/14/2009 10:16 PM

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