So here’s some good news. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Vader Ginsburg who said she that she though Roe v. Wade would be just perfect for getting rid of “populations that we don’t want to have to many of” doesn’t just want minority babies dead. She wants all of them dead. Whew. I thought she was some kind of racist monster there for a second. Glad she solved that one.
Here’s her original statement:
“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.”
Now, LifeNews is reporting that the same reporter Emily Bazelon has written a follow up article, in which she clarifies those comments with Ginsburg.
“Emily, you know that that line, which you quoted accurately, was vastly misinterpreted,” Ginsbug said. “I was surprised that the court went as far as it did in Roe v. Wade, and I did think that with the Medicaid reimbursement cases down the road that perhaps the court was thinking it did want more women to have access to reproductive choice. At the time, there was a concern about too many people inhabiting our planet. There was an organization called Zero Population Growth.” She continued, “In the press, there were articles about the danger of crowding our planet. So there was at the time of Roe v. Wade considerable concern about overpopulation.”
Bazelon summarizes by saying, “Justice Ginsburg also made it clear today that the issue she had in mind when we spoke in 2009 was concern about population growth among all classes (and races).”
Oooooh. Thank goodness. You see, she doesn’t just want black, brown, or poor babies dead, she thought they all deserved to die. Thank goodness, we learned that our Supreme Court justice doesn’t want babies to die because the color of their skin or because their parent’s economic portfolio. That would have been really bad, huh? She thought Roe would be good for killing babies for Mother Earth.
October 25, 2012 at 2:16 pm
The unalienable right to Life for our constitutional posterity seems to have been left out of Ginsberg's oath of office. Perhaps she will need time off to review our founding principles before she ascends the bench a second time.
October 25, 2012 at 2:25 pm
Oh, I see, she's not a racist; she is an equal-opportunity genocidal misanthrope.
That's much better.
October 25, 2012 at 3:09 pm
It's also a telling insight into how the supreme court functions. We silly citizens think that the judges are guided by legal principles and documents like, well, the Constitution (though they may differ in their interpretation and application of those principles). But instead we find out that the SCOTUS is actually motivated by contemporary social and political concerns (I'm looking at you, justice Roberts).
How can there be rule of law when not only the elected branches ignore the Constitution, but also the unelected branch, whose job it is fundamentally to safeguard the Constitution.
October 25, 2012 at 3:14 pm
"Good people, you misunderstood me. I didn't mean that I just wanted to kill the ghetto kids, I meant kill suburbanites too."
October 25, 2012 at 4:06 pm
So much for the lie that it is about womens' health.
October 25, 2012 at 5:23 pm
The founding fathers really messed up on the judicial branch. Seriously, the only "check and balance" is that the executive branch appoints them? Fail.
Dave
October 25, 2012 at 5:41 pm
So basicially she is conceding that the Court in Roe v Wade did not make its decision based upon the law and Constitution, but extraneous political factors such as alleged overpopulation. Thanks for the confession.
October 25, 2012 at 10:11 pm
How curious that a Supreme Court justice could be so supportive of mass murder. Just imagine one of her neighbors asking her to look after the baby for a few minutes.
October 27, 2012 at 4:35 am
@Dave: no, the Founding Fathers intended the Supreme Court to be a court. They didn't intend it to decide constitutionality at all (notice judicial review isn't in the Constitution?).
From what I can tell, the President's veto power was supposed to be the guarantor of constitutionality.