Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- In an amazing admission, pro-abortion Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told a feminist group that the basis for legalized abortion should be changed from the so-called right to privacy to the anti-slavery provisions found in the Constitution.

Ginsburg made the comments in a speech to the Veteran Feminists of America which saluted her along with other pro-abortion attorneys who were involved in the women’s rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s.

During the June event, according to a story on the pro-abortion RH Reality web site, she responded to a questioner who asked if Roe should be recast based on the thirteenth amendment against slavery.

“I think the notion of a woman's autonomy to determine her life's course, that has come more and more into the ... more recent cases,” she said agreeing with the questioner.
“I think the notion (is) that it isn't just some private act; it is a woman's right to control ... her own life,” Ginsburg added, according to the web site.

"I think lawyers have argued that -- in the Casey case, for example. It's not privacy, in the sense that ‘This something I want to do and hide from everybody, and, seal myself in a cocoon.' It's autonomy (which) is the idea; it's a woman's right to choose,” Ginsburg said.

RH Reality indicated Ginsburg also talked about the future of the case.

"People tend to think that Roe v Wade has to be preserved at all costs. What has to be preserved is the right of a woman to have access to the means to control her own reproductive capacity,” she said.

The pro-abortion judge, who is thought to be one of the likely members of the high court to step down in the next few years because of health issues, also admitted that she wants to overturn the 1977 case that allowed the federal government to protect taxpayers from paying for abortions.

Instead, she wants poor women to have a constitutional right to use public funds to pay for abortions, the RH Reality web site indicated.

“Our government has a policy that there is no Medicaid reimbursement for abortion, that there is for childbirth. I think that the concentration really should be at the legislative level, in the states, and in Congress, assuming the composition of Congress will continue to change, as it has recently,” she said.

“It has to be much more than the bare right of a woman of means to obtain an abortion,” she concluded.

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