That’s right. A sitting Associate Justice on the Supreme Court thinks a preposition is a perfectly wonderful thing to end a sentence with. But then maybe there’s something else about that sentence that strikes you as a little odd.

Draw your own conclusions. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, discussing the 1980 Supreme Court decision Harris v. McRae, which forbids the use of Medicaid for abortions. Excerpted, from NY Times Mag, without further comment…

Yes, the ruling about that surprised me. 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. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. Which some people felt would risk coercing women into having abortions when they didn’t really want them. But when the court decided McRae, the case came out the other way. And then I realized that my perception of it had been altogether wrong. [emphasis mine]

We learn of this via Ed Whalen, via Creative Minority, via Deacon’s Bench, via blogger friend Rick.