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Originally Posted by buggyone
Gee, with a statement from certain posters on this forum of "This great country is rotting from the inside out BECAUSE WE HAVE TOO MANY GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS THAT ENCOURAGE people to over breed and be lazy." - maybe the conservative answer would be mandatory sterilizations of people on welfare. Weren't eugenics also one of the ideas of a certain leader in WWII?
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And apparently eugenics was the idea in the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade, according to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg:
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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. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/ma...pagewanted=all