Injustice Ginsburg: "Reproductive rights need to be straightened out" and the morning-after pill will help...

(Tim, w/thanks to Kamilla and James) SCOTUS Little Lady, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, held forth in a long interview that ran in yesterday's New York Times. Ranging far afield for most of the interview, as always with the Times, the inevitable homing device kicked in and the interview came to a roaring end with our national bloodlust for baby-slaughter front and center:

New York Times: When you say that reproductive rights need to be straightened out, what do you mean?

JUSTICE GINSBURG: The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman...

New York Times: Does that mean getting rid of the test the court imposed, in which it allows states to impose restrictions on abortion — like a waiting period — that are not deemed an “undue burden” to a woman’s reproductive freedom?

JUSTICE GINSBURG: I’m not a big fan of these tests. I think the court uses them as a label that accommodates the result it wants to reach. It will be, it should be, that this is a woman’s decision. It’s entirely appropriate to say it has to be an informed decision, but that doesn’t mean you can keep a woman overnight who has traveled a great distance to get to the clinic, so that she has to go to some motel and think it over for 24 hours or 48 hours.

I still think, although I was much too optimistic in the early days, that the possibility of stopping a pregnancy very early is significant. The morning-after pill will become more accessible and easier to take. So I think the side that wants to take the choice away from women and give it to the state, they’re fighting a losing battle. Time is on the side of change.

Comments

[Mahoney]

Horrifying.

She wants Medicaid to pay for all abortions and I'm sure she wants to create some sort of government pay-incentive program to get more doctors to perform abortions.

They won't be happy until they have "drive through abortions" as one of the workers at the 4th of July parade in Bloomington yelled the Pro-Life float.

Also the section where she says that even though most women regret their abortions that women must be viewed as "completely autonomous" - you know, because all of us are truly autonomous, aren't we?

Then the clincher, "The poor little woman, to regret the choice that she made."

If a woman comes forward to speak against anything the feminazis want, they use the diminutive tone with her - women treating women as they say they hate to be treated by men.

They just seek to discredit with condescension anyone who tries to shed light on their agenda of death.

-Clint

[Scott Tibbs]

Here's an interesting quote from the interview:

> 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. Which some people
> felt would risk coercing women into having
> abortions when they didn’t really want them.

She then said "I realized that my perception of it had been altogether wrong."

Ms. Ginsburg, your first perception was right.

It is still right. Why do you think developed nations push birth control in those nasty undeveloped nations with those nasty people who are something other than white? It is completely racist and depraved.

[Kamilla]

Scott,

I know, scary isn't it? A friend of mine asked this question about it on his blog:

"Since when did population control become a constitutional principle to be applied by justices in determining the cases brought to the Supreme Court?"

And then:

"There couldn't be a better example of left-wing ideological preoccupations invading jurisprudence. Obama's insistence on judicial empathy and Sotomayor's epistemological privileging of gender and ethnicity are its equivalents.

As in the case of any ideological preoccupations, there are always a class of victims who go unnoticed -- in this case, it is that population "we don't want to have too many of." That kind of comment was routinely made in 1930s Germany."

Kamilla

[Mick Buschbacher]

>>Time is on the side of change.

You bet it is.

"Behold, I am making all things new"

[Mahoney]

Supreme court control of unwanted people in the population has been going on for a while. Most notably the Buck vs Bell case where Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough."

-Clint

[Jack K Philippi]

Those of us who call ourselves believers in/followers of Jesus Christ are clearly the kind of population Judge Darth Vader Ginsburg and her ilk do not want too many of. It seems to me, with the coming of Judge Sotomayor, that what we will soon have is a new USSR (United States Socialist Republic).

[Michael McMillan]

> ...that population "we don't want to have too
> many of." That kind of comment was routinely
> made in 1930s Germany."

Government-run Health Care, anyone?

> Those of us who call ourselves believers
> in/followers of Jesus Christ are clearly the
> kind of population Judge Darth Vader Ginsburg
> and her ilk do not want too many of.

Those who call themselves believers and don't bow to the State at the sound of the gong, that is. In this regard, I watched a moving film I'd never heard of free on Netflix this week [one of their Watch Instantly titles] that I haven't been able to get out of my mind--

"Sophie Scholl: The Final Days."

A German language film about a 21 year old heroine who was executed in 1943 with her brother and other members of the "White Rose" resistance movement, for distributing flyers exposing Nazi evils and trying to stir up the consciences of the German people. The fourth day after her arrest, she was dead. From what I gather, she was a Christian. I'd never heard of her or the White Rose, but it was a very sobering and well-done movie. Nominated for Best Foreign Film in 2005. Much of the movie is her interrogation based upon actual records, and the "People's Court" trial. Great hearing her oppose their ideology. [No torture or violence related to the interrogation, though there is the execution at the end.]

http://www.sophieschollmovie.com/ Don't skip the Intro.

I also read Wikipedia about her, which was helpful.

--Michael