The Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it would not hear a case seeking to reinstate a trolly anti-abortion law targeting sex, race, and disability-selective abortions signed by former Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R).
Justice Clarence Thomas didn’t disagree with the decision not to take up this issue, but he did see it as the perfect opportunity to publish a 20-page rant claiming that the “use of abortion to achieve eugenic goals is not merely hypothetical.”
Such a response is not surprising — Justice Thomas’ has not hid his disdain for Roe v. Wade in his past opinions. What is surprising, however, is that Thomas devotes much of his concurring opinion in Box v. Planned Parenthood to an extended attack on early supporters of birth control. The implication is that contraception, and not just abortion, may need to be banned in order to prevent some kind of racial eugenics.
View the complete May 28 article by Ian Millhiser on the ThinkProgress website here.