as the snow flies
on a cold and gray chicago morn'
a poor little baby child is born
I don't think you are going to go very far in reforming the country until we have a better educated, healthier, wealthier population. . . .You 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.
There, I've said it. It's what we all know is true, but we only whisper it, because as liberals who believe in individual rights, we view any program which might treat the disadvantaged differently as discriminatory, mean-spirited and...well...so Republican. . . .
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 and Hillary are a perfect example. Could either of you have gone to law school and achieved anything close to what you have if you had three or four or more children before you were 20? No! You waited until you were established and in your 30's to have one child. That is what sensible people do. . . .
Imagine the uproar if this had appeared in a Freedom of Information request from the Bush Administration. It was in fact a letter (pages 61-64 here -- note: PDF document) written to then-incoming-President Clinton in early 1992 by lawyer Ron Weddington, urging FDA approval of the abortifacient drug RU-486.
As America's first black president, I imagine that Clinton was pretty steamed about that, especially since proven methods of contraception like blue dresses and cigars were readily available.
Mr. Weddington concludes with this postscript:
I was co-counsel in Roe V. Wade, have sired zero children and one fetus, the abortion of which was recently recounted by my ex-wife in her book, A Question Of Choice (Grossett/Putnam, 1992) I had a vasectomy in 1969 and have never had one moment of regret.
You sound like a lovely ex-couple. By the way, you neglected to mention your invaluable contribution to the Wannsee Conference, but I'm sure that it was just a youthful indiscretion.
Or a statute-of-limitations thing.