Activists from the Susan B. Anthony List have sent over 340,000 letters to members of Congress, urging them to continue to block taxpayer funds from being used to pay for abortions. SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser will speak online at www.stoptheabortionmandate.com at 9:18 EST Thursday.
In an interview with CBS anchor Katie Couric, “President Barack acknowledged the longstanding ‘tradition’ of excluding abortion coverage from government-funded health care programs,” Dannenfelser said. “When we find long-standing traditions like limiting taxpayer funds for abortion, we know political common ground has been achieved. This is exactly the type of policy the President has sought to achieve, one that stands the test of time, agreed to by both Democratic and Republican administrations alike.
“Yet both the House and Senate versions of health care reform legislation seek to undo this commonsense policy. Without language to explicitly exclude an abortion mandate, the legislation will result in Americans footing the bill for abortion on-demand in the largest expansion of government-backed abortion since Roe v. Wade.”
The potential for a government-run health care system that includes an abortion mandate to descend into eugenics or a Chinese-style one baby limit was recently hinted at by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who said she had presumed Medicaid would fund abortions when Roe v. Wade was decided because there was “concern about population growth” – particularly “populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”
Pray tell, Justice Ginsburg, exactly which populations would those be? Were you referring to black people, poor people, those with Down’s Syndrome or other genetic maladies?
Would women in populations the government “doesn’t want to have too many of” be forced to abort their babies under Obamacare?
Here’s the link to the July 7 New York Times Magazine article entitled “The Place of Women on the Court” by Emily Bazelon.
In a stinging rebuttal, Politics Daily’s Carl Cannon called Ginsburg out:
“Ruth Ginsburg let her guard down apparently, resulting in her ‘Michael Kinsley moment’ – committing a gaffe by speaking the truth. If her defenders want to brush away that truth, well, that’s part of the famous Kinsley formulation, too. Yet, the underlying themes [eugenics] Ginsburg invoked are still present, and one doesn’t have to go back to Margaret Sanger or 1939 to find them:
Here’s the link to Cannon’s article, “Ginsburg’s Remark Stirs an Old Debate: Abortion, Eugenics and the Meaning of Margaret Sanger”
