Next stop, the shower room

Ramesh Ponnuru writing in NRO publishes a portion of a letter written by Ron Weddington, the co-counsel on Roe v. Wade, to President-elect Bill Clinton:

[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 (sic) 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. There, I’ve said it. It’s what we all know is true. . .
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I am not proposing that you send federal agents armed with Depo-Provera dart guns to the ghetto. You should use persuasion rather than coercion. . . . You made a good start when you appointed Dr. Elders, but she will need a lot of help. . . .

[G]overnment is also going to have to provide vasectomies, tubal ligations and abortions. . . . There have been about 30 million abortions in this country since Roe v. Wade. Think of all the poverty, crime and misery. . . and then add 30 million unwanted babies to the scenario. We lost a lot of ground during the Reagan-Bush religious orgy. We don’t have a lot of time left.

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 poor babies.

I'm sure that no one is shocked to find that one of the lawyers who engineered Roe v. Wade penned a letter that sounds like Josef Mengele writing from his "clinic" at Auschwitz. What may be a bit more surprising is that the “fuehrer” that he felt comfortable writing this to was Bill Clinton.

Note some of the assumptions that he felt that he and his new president would share. Contempt for soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines, calling them “Cannon fodder”. Contempt for religious people, the “parishioners” which the nation surely needs no more of. And “cheap labor”? Don’t let the illegal immigration lobby hear you say that.

If you’ve ever wondered why the Left fought so hard against measures to apply common sense public health measures to the AIDS epidemic you now have your answer. And if you ever found it puzzling why the Democrat Party opposed effective anti-crime measures like allowing private citizens to carry handguns we now know. The Poor, who are disproportionately impacted by crime, can be weeded out by letting the murder rate take its toll.

We are not told if President Clinton replied to the letter or what he thought of it. But let me leave you with a question. Can you think of anything that Bill Clinton did in his tenure as president that indicates that he disagreed with Ron Weddington?

Hat Tip: The American Thinker