Justice Ginsburg Just Lets It All Out

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in a soon to be released interview in the New York Times Magazine, gave her thoughts on Sonia Sotomayor, as well as her (Ginsburg's) views on abortion.

"In an interview to be published in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she thought the landmark Roe v. Wade decision on abortion was predicated on the Supreme Court majority's desire to diminish 'populations that we don’t want to have too many of.'"

*Crickets chirping*

"Ginsburg discussed her surprise at the outcome of Harris v. McRae, a 1980 decision that upheld the Hyde Amendment, which prohibited the use of Medicaid and other federal funds for abortions."

*In the distance, a dog barks*

"In 1993, she told the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing:

'(Y)ou asked me about my thinking on equal protection versus individual autonomy. My answer is that both are implicated. The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity. It is a decision she must make for herself. When the government controls that decision for her, she is being treated as less than a full adult human responsible for her own choices.'"

Justice Ginsburg has, how can I say this politely, a...skewed...view on abortion. Deciding to get an abortion isn't a choice, it's a crime. What else do you call the voluntary termination of a life? Government doesn't control a woman's decision to get pregnant, she makes that for herself. Where government intervention should come in is when that woman decides she wants to take the life of the baby, more often than not because of a question of convenience. THAT is when somebody MUST step in. That isn't being treated as less than a full adult human responsible for her own choices, that's acting to stop a crime from being committed by someone who is trying to avoid being responsible for a choice she already made. Being stupid or not having the forethought to think of what raising a child will do to your life is not an excuse to snuff out an innocent life. You didn't take precautions to avoid getting pregnant, you pay the consequences...it's not the unborn child's fault you have no self control.