"Q: Are you talking about the distances women have to travel because in parts of the country, abortion is essentially unavailable, because there are so few doctors and clinics that do the procedure? And also, the lack of Medicaid for abortions for poor women?
JUSTICE GINSBURG: 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..." [link]
Yes, I had to read that several times to make sure that I was in fact reading it correctly. We just had a sitting supreme court judge say that there was concern about population growth and in particular in certain populations! Wonder what populations she was referring to?
It is exactly this type of lunatic thinking that the 2nd amendment was intended to protect all citizens of the United States against.
Here is a link to the official 1970 census report. You may extrapolate your own data and draw your own conclusions.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
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Hello Ginsburg? GinsBURG?
There was a party that was for eugenics in Europe during the turn of the century.
Seems to me we fought a war to stop that from happening to her tribe.
How quickly they forget!
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