{"id":3618,"date":"2009-07-14T03:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3618"},"modified":"2025-09-30T00:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:52:12","slug":"ruth-bader-ginsburg-coments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3618","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg comments on eliminating “populations that we don’t want”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the full NY Times <\/strong>article, so there is no question of the context of her comments. And the interviewer didn't ask a follow-up question! <\/p>\n

One of the precursor to today's Planned Parenthood was a group called The American Eugenics Society<\/strong>. Of course Adolf Hitler gave the term  Eugenics<\/font> a bad name … you don't hear the term too often. <\/p>\n

 The Place of Women on the Court – NYTimes.com<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

And here's is the Catholic League Press Release – just an examle of some of the responses to Justice Ginsburg's comments:<\/p>\n

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JUSTICE GINSBURG NEEDS TO EXPLAIN HERSELF<\/span><\/p>\n

July 10, 2009<\/em><\/p>\n

Catholic League president Bill Donohue says U.S. Supreme Court Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg needs to explain her recent comment on abortion and eugenics:<\/p>\n

Excerpts of a New York Times Magazine<\/em> interview with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, which will appear on July 12, include the following quote by the Supreme Court Justice about the 1973 Roe v. Wade<\/em> decision that legalized abortion: \u201cFrankly I had thought that at the time Roe<\/em> was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don\u2019t want to have too many of.\u201d<\/p>\n

By contrast, consider what Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, said about this subject:<\/p>\n

\u00b7 \u201cEugenic sterilization is an urgent need\u2026We must prevent Multiplication of this bad stock.\u201d
\u00b7 \u201cBirth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.\u201d
\u00b7 \u201cToday eugenics is suggested by the most diverse minds as the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.\u201d
\u00b7 \u201cWe are paying for, and even submitting to, the dictates of an ever-increasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all.\u201d
\u00b7 \u201cWe don\u2019t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is another reason why Ginsburg needs to clarify her remark. Before she was seated on the Supreme Court in 1993, she hired 57 law clerks over a period of 13 years. All were white. Now if Antonin Scalia, for example, were associated with her disturbing remark, and if he had never hired a single African American, he already would have been branded a racist. At the very least, Ginsburg should be questioned about her explosive comment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Here is the full NY Times article, so there is no question of the context of her comments. And the interviewer didn't ask a follow-up question! One of the precursor to today's Planned Parenthood was a group called The American Eugenics Society. Of course Adolf Hitler gave the term  Eugenics a bad name … you don't hear the term […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9112,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions\/9112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}