Former education secretary suggests aborting black children!

William Bennett was education secretary under Reagan, and is still held
in high regard by many in the neo-conservative camp. His outburst today
is inexcusable, unless he has simply lost his mind:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1582356,00.html



Mr. Bennett said on a radio show: "If you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose; you
could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go
down."



Sometimes a statement is so heinous as to make it hard to even know
where to start refuting it. I'll merely inject the suggestion that if
we aborted all children born to lower socio-economic strata, we could
probably achieve an even larger temporary decrease in the crime-rate.
Temporary? Why yes - sooner or later, wealth redistribution in this
country would simply make a new class of poor.






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