Roe attorney: Use abortion to 'eliminate poor'

Roe attorney: Use abortion to 'eliminate poor' In unearthed letter urged President-elect Clinton to 'reform' country
Posted: May 13, 20061:00 a.m. Eastern
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Ron WeddingtonA letter to Bill Clinton written by the co-counsel who successfully argued the Roe v. Wade decision urged the then-president-elect to "eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of our country" by liberalizing abortion laws.

Ron Weddington, who with his wife Sarah Weddington represented "Jane Roe," sent the four-page letter to President Clinton's transition team before Clinton took office in January 1993.

The missive turned up in an exhibit put together by the watchdog legal group Judicial Watch, which has been researching the Clinton administration's policy on the abortion drug RU-486, notes James Taranto in the Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web.

Weddington told the president-elect: "I don't think you are going to go very far in reforming the country until we have a better educated, healthier, wealthier population."

He said the new leader can "start immediately to eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of our country."

Weddington qualified his statement, saying, "No, I'm not advocating some sort of mass extinction of these unfortunate people. Crime, drugs and disease are already doing that. 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."

Weddington explained he was "not proposing that you send federal agents armed with Depo-Provera dart guns to the ghetto. You should use persuasion rather than coercion."

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What can I say? It's been proven rather conclusively that the drop in crime in recent years has nothing to do with law enforcement and everything to do with the aborting of most of a generation of criminals.

Some will argue that all life is sacred and even if you knew a child would turn to a life of crime, that child still has a right to life. Paradoxically those who are most in favor of overturning Roe v Wade are also pro-capital punishment and pro-tough on crime in general.

While I'm a Conservative 'abortion' was never the 'cause' for me. I don't believe that any government should be making the choices about anyone having a child or not having a child. In fact I favor government meddling as little as possible with everything. This issue is/was one of the major selling points in getting Bush & Co elected. Well that happened and the abortion issue is still being kicked around. Abortion appears to be the only thing that Bush & Co are truly Conservative on. On all other issues Bush & Co have proven to be as Liberal as any fire breathing latter day Dem.

In other words Conservatives were sold a bill of goods revolving around one issue and now we're stuck with a Congress and POTUS who are giving the nation away one piece at a time.