Off the Record

wait; did I hear that right? By Diogenes | July 09, 2009 6:07 PM

 We all know-- or ought to know, since the evidence is plentiful-- that Margaret Sanger, the patron saint of Planned Parenthood, was a racist and eugenicist. She favored legal abortion as a means of controlling the growth of the racial groups she deemed inferior. But that's all ancient history now. We don't dredge up the distasteful facts about the origins of the population-control movement.

Or do we?

Maybe Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg didn't get the memo. She told the New York Times: 

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.

OK. Wait. Stop. Reset. Let's read that sentence again.

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. [Emphasis added]

Yup, that's what I thought she said.  

 

 

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• Posted by: dover beachcomber - Jul. 10, 2009 6:33 PM ET USA

  And according to the Catholic League, before she was seated on the Supreme Court in 1993, she hired 57 law clerks over a period of 13 years. All were white. Good thing she's pro-abortion, or she'd be in real trouble. But as it is, the talking heads in our abortion-compliant media are already telling us "There's nothing to see here. Move along."

• Posted by: Hal - Jul. 10, 2009 12:56 PM ET USA

  I saw that too. Appalling. If it had been a "conservative", we'd have had quotes for Jackson o Sharpton to Pelosi and the unfortunate individual would have been flogged and burned in the square. With the former General Counsel of the ACLU saying it, it's no big deal, apparently.