Ruth Bader Ginsberg's interview in the NY Times as reviewed by The New Ledger.
JUSTICE GINSBURG: Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that had changed their abortion laws before Roe [to make abortion legal] are not going to change back. So we have a policy that affects only poor women, and it can never be otherwise, and I don’t know why this hasn’t been said more often.
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. [Emphasis mine]
What exactly is she talking about? How is it that nobody (especially the Times Interviewer) has really even followed up to what the hell she's talking about?
Read the rest..........
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Because Ginsburg has become the matron saint of everything the left holds dear. She, like Obama, is the liberal version of the pope; infallible and therefore to be blindly followed; and never ever questioned.
This is just a thought. I wonder if her tone was sarcastic and meant to accentuate the left steroetype of the right. To paraphrase what she might be implying, "I don't understand why you white redneck racist males don't want abortion to be legal. You want to get rid of po' minority folk anyway. Don't ya?"
The left doesn't get it. The pro life people mostly care about the issue of life, not the effect of voter demographics. Just chalk it up as one more ignorant and incorrect assumption the left elites make about conservatives, based on the way they think about those same issues.
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