Promoters of the right to “reproductive health care” (a code phrase that includes abortion) are identified as the protectors of women’s health. The Pro-Life community gets labeled as dangerous to women’s health because of it’s rejection of abortion, opposition to abortifacient contraceptives, concern that “safe sex” is not safe, and promotion of abstinence-only programs for teenagers.  This contrast suggests ideology is controlling what passes for science in today’s world.     

A document discovered among Clinton’s presidential papers by Judicial Watch reveals shocking evidence of the ideology that drives proponents of abortion. Ron Weddington, who with his wife Sarah Weddington represented “Jane Roe” in Roe v. Wade, sent a four-page letter to President Clinton’s transition team before Clinton took office in January 1993.

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 suggested Clinton could “start immediately to eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of our country” by liberalizing abortion laws and “persuading” them not to have babies. Weddington added, “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.”

Do abortion supporters consider Weddington’s concept racist bigotry? Apparently not! Anyone who is truly a defender of the poor and an advocate for women’s health should be outraged by this bigoted, elitist concept. Weddington’s letter suggests abortion advocates are not serious about either protecting women’s health or helping poor people. Their fight for “reproductive rights” is actually intended to help eliminate the poor people to whom they want to grant those “rights.”  That is exactly the racist concept that Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger had in mind.

Bill Beckman