I’m shocked, not that this was their position but that one of them ACTUALLY ADMITTED IT!
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“Frankly,” said Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2009, “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.” She was speaking to the New York Times Magazine in an article on women on the court. Readers understood that those “populations” included racial minorities.
Don’t think for a moment she was the ONLY one who understood this.
The reaction made sense. Some people who supported legal abortion wanted to reduce the number of the poor and disabled, a group disproportionately including black people.
For example, in 1992, pro-choice lawyer Ron Weddington urged president-elect Bill Clinton to get the abortion pill (RU-486) into production as quickly as possible. He had been one of the lawyers arguing the pro-choice case in Roe v. Wade. “I don’t think you’re going to get very far in reforming the country,” he wrote, “until we have a better educated, healthier, wealthier population.”
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