The "I *Heart* Eugenics" Thread

[alexamenos]

I think that Ginsberg woman is getting taken to task a bit too much for her statement:

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...

She isn't necessarily saying that she supported using abortion to restrict the growth of populations that 'we don't want to have too many of', but instead she's saying that this was her perception at the time.

I think there was something to her perception -- she's a smart woman who was certainly tuned in to a lot of progressive arguments of the time, and if she perceived that part of the momentum behind abortion-love was a desire to control populations of people that 'we don't want to have too many of' then there was almost certainly quite a bit of reality behind that perception.

[chumdawg]

Originally Posted by alexamenos

I think that Ginsberg woman is getting taken to task a bit too much for her statement:



She isn't necessarily saying that she supported using abortion to restrict the growth of populations that 'we don't want to have too many of', but instead she's saying that this was her perception at the time.

I think there was something to her perception -- she's a smart woman who was certainly tuned in to a lot of progressive arguments of the time, and if she perceived that part of the momentum behind abortion-love was a desire to control populations of people that 'we don't want to have too many of' then there was almost certainly quite a bit of reality behind that perception.

She's also saying that she was wrong.