Roe Attorney on Tossing People from the Lifeboat*
Via Relapsed Catholic and Hillbilly White Trash comes this: The American Thinker - What some pro-choicers really think. Ron Weddington -- who with his then-wife Sarah Weddington was co-counsel on the Roe v. Wade case -- wrote a very provocative letter to President-elect Bill Clinton. While doing a Technorati search on this topic, I noticed some leftists accusing those who posted on this of "cherry-picking" various passages of the letter. Well, the entire letter is reproduced in this PDF file (on pages 61-64), so yes, it is every bit as bad as the passages make it sound.
Here are some excerpts with my admittedly sarcastic commentary bolded and in brackets:
The problem is that their numbers are not only replaced but increased by the birth of millions of babies to people who can’t afford to have babies.There, I've said it. It's what we all know is true, but we only whisper it, because as liberals who believe in individual rights, we view any program which might treat the disadvantaged differently as discriminatory, mean-spirited and...well...so Republican. [Because, of course we all know Republicans hate the poor -- unlike us.]
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You made a good start when you appointed Dr. Elders, but she will need a lot of help. You will have to enlist the aid of sports and entertainment stars to counteract the propaganda spread by church officials seeking parishioners, [Yes, people should listen to movie stars, pop stars and sports stars instead of their pastors. Celebrities are so much wiser, after all.] generals seeking cannon fodder and businessmen seeking cheap labor that, throughout the ages, has convinced the poor that children are necessary to fulfillment as a person. [I never knew that people had babies because generals and businessmen told them to -- you learn something new every day!]
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[G]overnment is also going to have to provide vasectomies, tubal ligations and abortions. . . . There have been about 30 million abortions in this country since Roe v. Wade. Think of all the poverty, crime and misery. . . and then add 30 million unwanted babies to the scenario. We lost a lot of ground during the Reagan-Bush religious orgy. We don’t have a lot of time left. [More babies are being born every second! We must stop the scourge!]
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We don’t need more cannon fodder. [Get rid of those damned military people! They usually vote Republican anyway.] We don’t need more parishioners. [Same goes for those damned godbags.] We don’t need more cheap labor. [We have illegal aliens for that.] We don’t need more poor babies.
Margaret Sanger's philosophy lives on.
*I couldn't help but think of the Steve Taylor song, "Lifeboat".
Not just sad, but evil. And those truly evil people have managed to convince so many wishy-washy fence-setters into thinking that killing off the unborn is not that big of a deal. There are so many reasons and excuses and they are all wrong. What Margaret Sanger did makes me sick. And Dover Books still has her book as a featured choice in their "women's studies" section. Barf. Oh, and by the way, don't you know everyone in the military is poor and stupid? Why else would they sign up???
By the way, since you are a Steve Taylor fan, did you know that he kind of regretted making "Lifeboat," after hearing a bunch of little kids belting out the chorus? The kids were being brought up as Christians and knowing right from wrong; I just think he regretted the way he put it across in that song. But then of course he shook people up later with "I Blew Up the Clinic Real Good." He has that special sarcastic, snarky way of saying things, doesn't he?