In a not so surprising revelation, it appears that Ron Weddington, a leading advocate of RU-486 - the abortion pill, advised Bill Clinton to legalize it in order to (in his words):
"Our survival depends upon our developing a population where everyone contributes," he wrote. "We don't need more cannon fodder. We don't need more parishioners. We don't need more cheap labor. We don't need more babies."
This new document is wrong in oh so many ways, but first let us clear up a point of this article. While Clinton is many things, and some of them not good, I do not and cannot believe he is a Eugenicist. The biggest reason is because he is too smart for that. While I have no doubt that he was pushed to rush through RU-486 by his constituency, some of which are Eugenicist, that is all he is guilty of.
That being said, this clown is also wrong in virtually everything he writes. For he constantly contradicts himself with his own words. The most glaring and largest one is his attempt to appeal to Clinton's life style (that of a single child) to argue for the Eugenics of "the cannon fodder".
He is appealing to the 'smart' people, who apparently have already taken his plan to heart, to approve of a drug that the 'unwashed masses' ? Who despite the availability of other means of abortion for almost 20 years prior to his screed had decided not to avail themselves of abortion before this pill?
Other than being an excellent example of stupidity among the 'chosen elite', this document is also very telling in another respect. It lays bare the lie that Planned Parenthood has anything to do with parenthood. The apple does not fall far from the tree, and they started as Eugenicists, and remain Eugenicists.
But Weddington's problem along with those of planned parenthood are 2 fold. First and most obvious is that they cannot implement their goals without new laws that mandate forced sterilization or abortions. And while the democrats are so far in bed with them as to be permanent bunk mates, even most of them (I cannot say all) are not going to try to change the constitution to that end. It would be political suicide as the vast majority of the electorate, while some support abortion, do not and will not accept genetic engineering through forced sterilization.
Second, the intelligent members of the left, and I cannot count Weddington among them if he is so stupid as to write this idiocy, understand that a lot of that "cannon fodder" and "cheap labor" are their constituents. And to go along with this Eugenics program is to condemn them to a permanent minority party status.
So the next time some abortionist shoves their views under your nose and demands "a woman's right to choose", pop this under their snoot and ask "where?". You will get a lot of hemming and hawing and probably a lot of screeching, and of course the obligatory name calling. But you will not get a rational or coherent response.