October 1, 2014|11:11 am

Thanks to US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a well-known liberal and feminist, Americans are getting an inside look at what Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood's founder, probably would have embraced today and who she would have embraced today. From her recent comments on abortion, Justice Ginsburg would have been praised by Ms. Sanger for her comments on poor people and abortion.

The oldest female judge on the bench, Justice Ginsburg gave an interviewto fashion magazine Elle recently. In full context, here is the question and answer session on abortion:

[Elle:] Fifty years from now, which decisions in your tenure do you think will be the most significant?

[Justice Ginsburg:] Well, I think 50 years from now, people will not be able to understand Hobby Lobby. Oh, and I think on the issue of choice, one of the reasons, to be frank, that there's not so much pro-choice activity is that young women, including my daughter and my granddaughter, have grown up in a world where they know if they need an abortion, they can get it. Not that either one of them has had one, but it's comforting to know if they need it, they can get it.

The impact of all these restrictions is on poor women, because women who have means, if their state doesn't provide access, another state does. I think that the country will wake up and see that it can never go back to [abortions just] for women who can afford to travel to a neighboring state

[Elle:] When people realize that poor women are being disproportionately affected, that's when everyone will wake up? That seems very optimistic to me.

[Justice Ginsburg:] Yes, I think so. It makes no sense as a national policy to promote birth only among poor people. [emphasis mine]

Firstly, her assertion that many young women today aren't as actively pro-choice because they know they can get an abortion whenever they need to is at best, a good public relations spin on how outnumbered young pro-lifers are to young pro-choicers as noted by former NARAL president Nancy Keenan when she said of the March for Lifea couple years ago: "I just thought, my gosh, they are so young. There are so many of them, and they are so young." She cited the lack of involvement of young people in the pro-choice movement when she resigned.

Secondly, as to her point about the promotion of birth only among poor people as a default to their not being enough access to abortion for them Margaret Sanger would have been cheering Justice Ginsburg on.

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Channels Margaret Sanger