Bill Bennett

[lizziebith]

Quote taken out of context: reprehensible.

Quote taken within context: disturbing. What made him choose this particular rhetorical argument?

Abortion should be a woman's private choice, made for her own abundant reasons...it should never be dragged into some horrid economics argument. Sanger would be spinning in her grave, actually.

[Nephythys]

Originally Posted by lizziebith

Quote taken out of context: reprehensible.

Quote taken within context: disturbing. What made him choose this particular rhetorical argument?

Abortion should be a woman's private choice, made for her own abundant reasons...it should never be dragged into some horrid economics argument. Sanger would be spinning in her grave, actually.

Hardly- her stated goal was the reduction of the black population. Don't fool yourself- that woman was no patron saint of "choice"

[lizziebith]

Originally Posted by Nephythys

Hardly- her stated goal was the reduction of the black population. Don't fool yourself- that woman was no patron saint of
"choice"

Honestly, I've never seen that goal stated, so I'll not argue that point. I have seen her letters wherein she stated her frustration with the Comstock Laws of the time. She was a LOT more about birth control than abortion, from what I've read. Yes I know she joined a eugenics movement, but I'd read she quit, disgusted, because she'd thought it would help her, but was it obviously was something QUITE different from what she expected. I'll have to go rooting through some books to find more info...

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by lizziebith

Quote taken out of context: reprehensible.

Quote taken within context: disturbing. What made him choose this particular rhetorical argument?

I would guess it is because it is something he has been in on before. From the article:

"Mr. Bennett, who was the secretary of education in the Reagan administration and is the author of a best-selling book on morality, said he was referring to a debate in the online magazine Slate that had discussed race in the context of an argument about whether abortions contributed to lowering the crime rate. That debate, involving Steven D. Levitt, an author of the best-seller "Freakonomics," apparently appeared in Slate six years ago."