Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Martin Schiller wrote:
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> >Doug Henwood said on 9/17/99 10:21 PM
> >
> > > Harvard economist Robert Barro writes: "Apparently
> > >abortion particularly weeded out the children who would have been
> > >likely to follow criminal careers." Coming soon: Roundup for urban
> > >applications?
> >
> >Thank you, Doug! Children of women who would have opted for abortion
> >would otherwise have been unwanted children resented by their mother and
> >experiencing the same realities that caused her to want to terminate in
> >the first place. I'd guess that they'd be in a position to participate in
> >economic crime.
>
> I really don't know what you're saying here, but just to make myself
> perfectly clear (as that great liberal Nixon used to say), I find
> Barro's phrasing repellent, and a sign that the eugenic impulse is
> quite alive in the U.S. elite. Human beings are not weeds. I'm all
> for free abortion and contraception - but to promote the freedom of
> women, not as a method of "improving" the population.
>
> Doug
The results are the same aren't they? You just have a different justification. No?
Joshua2