Is Clarence Thomas going after the black vote here? Or maybe trying to suppress

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it? Is Eugenics really a thing again?

Clarence Thomas makes it clear: The right is coming for birth control next

By attacking Margaret Sanger's legacy, Justice Thomas isn't going after abortion — this is about contraception


AMANDA MARCOTTE at Salon

https://www.salon.com/2019/05/29/clarence-thomas-makes-it-clear-the-right-is-coming-for-birth-control-next/

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In reality, the reason black women get more abortions than white women is simple: They have more unwanted pregnancies. That's because black women, thanks to structural racism, have significantly poorer access to contraception. Due in no small part to the Affordable Care Act and its provision requiring insurance companies to cover contraception, abortion rates have been falling for all groups of women in recent years — and especially for black women.

But conservatives are swiftly, if still stealthily, moving to reverse those trends, and are fighting to make contraception harder to get, so that the unintended pregnancy rate will starts soaring again. Thomas did his part in that opinion by aggressively promoting the long-standing anti-choice conspiracy theory that Sanger advocated for birth control because she supposedly had it out for black people.

We know that Thomas' rant was an attack on birth control because, as he admits, Sanger was not actually supportive of abortion, which she called an "abnormal, often dangerous, surgical operation" thatshe strongly condemned as "dangerous and vicious."

Sanger's hatred of abortion was wrong-headed, but in fairness, it was likely rooted in her experience as a nurse working in the tenements in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the early 20th century. There she bore witness to the gory injuries caused by "slippery-elm sticks, or knitting needles, or shoe hooks into the uterus" to which women resorted in order to abort.


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1. Arch-conservative nut case. Republicans played racial politics with Dems in choosing him.

And he played along when he called the Anita Hill hearings a “high tech” lynching. Was quite sly and cynical of Cons to nominate him to fill Marshall’s seat.
Thomas knows what he’s doing. He always has used division for his own and his ideology’s advantage.

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2. Sure, his head's fucked up. But imagine having to go home to Ginny every night.

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3. Despite stiff competition from Alito, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, Thomas is the dumbest SCOTUS justice.

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4. I wouldn't call any of them "dumb"

You can have lousy politics and still be highly educated. Kavanaugh for example had exceptional grades and breezed through law school. Was Scalia “dumb” too?

Now Trump on the other hand...