NRO reveals an eye—opening letter found in the Clinton correspondence respecting abortion drug RU—486:

SPEAKING OF RU 486 [Ramesh Ponnuru]

Judicial Watch's report on the topic has a lot of eye—opening information, but the letter from Ron Weddington, the co—counsel on Roe v. Wade, to President—elect Bill Clinton is especially worth checking out. It's on pages 61—64.

A sampling:

[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. . . .

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.

Now of course these sorts of sentiments aren't shared by all or even most supporters of legal abortion, but I suspect they are more widely thought than voiced.

Since you can be sure no major media will carry this I am asking you to send this to others. Just in case you thought the hoary eugenics movement had died.

Here is the entire 64 pp pdf file of documents obtained from the Clinton Presidential Library. Among the other things in this file is evidence that Clinton pressured the FDA to approve the pill without normal FDA review.

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