Lawyer Who Drafted Roe vs. Wade: “Use Abortion to Eliminate Poor People”
Ron Weddington, one of the attorneys who drafted the brief for abortion rights in Roe V Wade, wrote a private letter to President-elect Bill Clinton arguing for the state to use abortion as population control. This letter was written in 1992:
“[Y]ou can start immediately to eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of our country.
No, 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....