"Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe [v. Wade] was decided, there was concern
about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to
have too many of."

Notice, most revealingly, that Ginsberg didn't think that the motivation behind Roe require her as a liberal to do anything. If fact, I once had a liberal professor who pointed at a young black man nearby and whispered conspiratorially, "That's why we need abortion."

The same is true of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger. In her 1922 bestseller, the Pivot of Civilization, she argued that civilization depends (pivots) on keeping the birthrates of the unfit (in her day mostly immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe) below that of her sort of people, generally the fashionable well-to-do living in big cities.

No discussion of government funded health care is complete without a discussion of how useful it would be those who intend, as Ginsburg put it, to reduce the "growth in populations we don't want to have too many of." With people like Holdren making policy and judges like Ginsburg issuing rulings from the bench, certain populations would find government-funded abortion much easier to get than prenatal care.