I have been concerned about Justice Ginsburg's quote referring to the Roe v. Wade decision that there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of. Today I read my first follow-up comment on the quote in a column by Jonah Goldberg. This viewpoint is of interest to me since I have had liberal, pro-abortion friends make a similar comment about getting rid of welfare costs by having "poor" people abort their babies.
Goldberg takes us back to Margaret Sanger, the inspiration of Planned Parenthood, and notes her willingness to use eugenics to limit some population groups. However, I thought this aspect of the pro-abortion movement had died with Margaret Sanger, but Goldberg points out:
In 1992, Ron Weddington, co-counsel in the Roe v. Wade case, wrote a letter to President-elect Bill Clinton, imploring him to rush RU-486 – a.k.a. "the abortion pill" – to market as quickly as possible.
"(Y)ou can start immediately to eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of our country," Weddington insisted. All the president had to do was make abortion cheap and easy for the populations we don't want. "It's what we all know is true, but we only whisper it. ... Think of all the poverty, crime and misery ... and then add 30 million unwanted babies to the scenario. We lost a lot of ground during the Reagan-Bush religious orgy. We don't have a lot of time left."
Weddington offered a clue about who, in particular, he had in mind: "For every Jesse Jackson who has fought his way out of the poverty of a large family, there are millions mired in poverty, drugs and crime."
I am wondering how prevalent this idea is? Is it an unspoken goal that is in the thinking of pro-abortion eugenicists, but hasn't been pushed because they realize it would discredit the pro-abortion movement? Having read the German advocates of eugenics leading up to Hitler and then seeing how Hitler implemented these ideas, the consequences of population control policies is so terrible that no words can describe the horror of it.
From the Washington TImes on recent research about 30 week fetuses. (NARAL has not responded)
They weigh less than 3 pounds, usually, and are perhaps 15 inches long. But they can remember. The unborn have memories, according to medical researchers who used sound and vibration stimulation, combined with sonography, to reveal that the human fetus displays short-term memory from at least 30 weeks gestation - or about two months before they are born.
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