"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."
In this quote from Justice Ginsburg, (given in an interview with Emily Bazellon of the New York Times Magazine conducted an interview with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg entitled “The Place of Women on the Court” which appeared in its’ online July 7, 2009 issue) I'd love to know exactly what she means by "populations that we don't want to have too many of." Ginsburg was born in 1933, and lived through the US Civil Rights Movement (as well as the time leading up to it) and it is reasonable to think that her impressions surrounding races and "populations" would have been formed from her youth. One might think though, that being a Jew, particularly one who was alive during the greatest eugenics effort perhaps in history which tried to exterminate the Jews, Ginsburg would be more sensitive about the subject of getting rid of or limiting certain populations. I guess she just refuses to see it the other way around.
For more on the NYT Magazine interview, take a look at this article.
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"pro-choice"ers like to forget that the abortion movement began as a major arm of eugenics aka race extermination. Do you really want this to be your legacy?
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