Hypocrisy has no bounds.
Most Americans who think of themselves as politically aware seem to view Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court of the United States as the embodiment of “progressive” or liberal thinking in the present era. Almost like a present-day Margaret Sanger.
But one must digress briefly.
Margaret Sanger was a birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse, who popularized the term “birth control,” opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. And if one looks closely at her background, it will be noted that she was a well-known supporter of eugenics, the set of beliefs and practices that aimed ((supposedly) to improve the genetic quality of a human population by excluding (through a variety of morally criticized means) certain genetic groups judged to be inferior, and promoting other genetic groups judged to be superior.
Eugenics, in the modern understanding of the term, is seen as having close ties to white supremacism and was frequently used by the Nazis to attempt to justify some of their more horrific actions. But eugenics policies, regardless of whether negative or positive policies are used, are highly susceptible to abuse because the genetic selection criteria are determined by whichever group has political power at the time.
Returning now to Mrs. Justice Ginsburg . . . .
In a now fairly obscure (likely kept as obscure as possible by the hard Left) interview of RBG in the New York Times Magazine some time ago, it has been reported that in the course of relating her surprise at the Court’s 1980 decision upholding the Hyde Amendment (which banned federal funding for abortion), Justice Ginsburg had the following to say about legal history, social policy, and political surprises: “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] So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding of abortion.”
So, is it a fair reading of her statement that she saw legalized, government-funded abortions as a useful way of controlling the growth of undesirable populations of, as they say, people of color?
Naturally, as this quote has circulated, both RBG and The New York Times have tried to walk back its implications, but the accuracy of the quote itself has never been challenged.
You cannot make up this stuff!
