Under this theory...Condi Rice's unborn baby should be aborted to lower crime? Apparently, blacks commit all the crime...This is the kind of comment that foolish people make..."Sure, it is would be WRONG to do what I am going to mentioin...but IF you aborted all the black babies, well, I am not proposing such a thing or implying it, but if you did....well...You could lower crime because blacks commit more crime...so Abortioin is WRONG, but crime is wrong too...so don't even consider what I am saying, it's just an example....but if you did aim in this direction...
Even Bush got away from this one real fast.
WASHINGTON - The White House on Friday criticized former Education Secretary William Bennett for remarks linking the crime rate and the abortion of black babies.
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"The president believes the comments were not appropriate," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said.
Bennett, on his radio show, "Morning in America," was answering a caller's question when he took issue with the hypothesis put forth in a recent book that one reason crime is down is that abortion is up.
"But I do know that it's true that 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," said Bennett, author of "The Book of Virtues."
He went on to call that "an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky."
Responding later to criticism, Bennett said his comments had been mischaracterized and that his point was that the idea of supporting abortion to reduce crime was "morally reprehensible."
Bennett was education secretary under President Reagan and director of drug control policy when Bush's father was president. |
