Justice Ginsburg Says She Originally Thought Roe v. Wade Was Designed to Limit ‘Populations That We Don’t Want to Have Too Many Of’

WedNEWSday - July 15th, 2009

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg tells New York Times Magazine she thought the Roe v. Wade decision was intended to diminish “populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”

Justice Ginsburg: Yes, the ruling about that surprised me. 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 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.”
 
The comment suggested Ginsburg eventually changed her mind and concluded that Roe was not decided with the idea that abortion could be used to limit “growth in populations we don’t want to have too many of.”  But she did not qualify her position that the policy enacted under the case put an unacceptable burden on poor women.

This from CNSNews.com - July 10th, 2009

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=50819

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