Bennett defends remarks on blacks, abortion and crime rate [View All]

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2002532526_benn01.html

WASHINGTON — William Bennett yesterday defended comments he made on his "Morning in America" radio talk show suggesting that aborting black children would reduce crime, saying he was merely musing about a hypothetical argument and he made plain to listeners he was not stating his own position.

Bennett is under fire for saying Wednesday that "you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down." He followed this by adding that such a thing would be "an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do."

Yesterday, he refused to apologize and released a statement saying critics unfairly pulled his comment out of context: "A thought experiment about public policy, on national radio, should not have received the condemnations it has."

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean called on him to apologize.

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What a pig.