Disturbing Quotes of Our Time

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. Which some people felt would risk coercing women into having abortions when they didn’t really want them. But when the court decided McRae, the case came out the other way. And then I realized that my perception of it had been altogether wrong. (emphasis added)

What? At what point did anyone, Supreme Court Justice, or anyone else become in charge of population control? And, what exactly are the populations that we wanted to control? And, who is "we", the so called elite, the government, the intellectuals?

Are we controlling the population of poor, potentially disabled, minorities, dysfunctional? How do we know they would have been?

Many famous, influential and successful people who have impacted society in a good way have come from these "less than desirable" roots. Who decides?

I seem to remember, or at least have read a lot, about a time, when someone said that their country would be better off without Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and physically and mentally impaired people. Did this not spark some sort of reaction in the German people? We are appalled that no one stood up and said, "These are human beings. They have rights!"

Since about 1974 there have been over 50 million abortions in this country. 50 million. Not all of these were the result of rape or incest or some other tragedy. I would guess that the bulk were recreational abortions, the result of someone who gave up the pill because it caused weight gain, or got careless because it just didn't matter. There was always a way out.

50 million. Who were they, or more to the point, who might they have become?