Ruth Bader Ginsburg: "It makes no sense as a national policy to promote birth only among poor people."

And the specific context of this remark was restrictions on abortion. Ginsburg fretted that "the impact of all these restrictions is on poor women."

At which point she announced: "It makes no sense as a national policy to promote birth only among poor people."

This is not her first time weighing in on the question of what by any intellectually honest standard must be described as eugenics. In an earlier interview, she described the Roe v. Wade decision as being intended to control population growth, "particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of."

I remember reading some slam on Ayn Rand. The critic claimed that he could see no place for the poor in Rand's conception of the world, and that her words had the sound of "To the gas chambers, go" to them, as far as her attitude towards the poor.

This criticism -- which incidentally inserted words into Rand's mouth which she herself had never uttered -- was intended to demonstrate the moral horror of her worldview.

Well, there doesn't seem to much umbrage about Ginsburg's remarks.

Corrected: I said the "to the gas chamber, go" line came from "a lefty."

I did not. It came from former lefty turned rightie, Whitaker Chambers, writing a review in... National Review, of all places.

Thanks to a bunch of people.

Look, I'm dumb. You know that. I haven't hidden this from you.

posted by Ace at 06:16 PM

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