"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." (Emphasis mine)
- Supreme Court Justice
Margaret Sanger Ruth Bader Ginsburg
discussing abortion rulings,
New York Times, July 7, 2009.
Wow.
Imagine the immediate explosive (and justified) media outcry had usual boogeymen Antonin Scalia or Clarence Thomas come out with
that little gem.
Well, where are those same dominant news types now that one of the most reliable liberal doctrinaires on the Court has apparently been exposed as a closet eugenicist?
(
Liberty's Teeth via
The War on Guns)
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