At a recent South by Southwest in Texas (SXSW) event, Chelsea Clinton argued on the "Reproductive Freedom: Good for Workers, Good for Business" panel (that nobody went to) that abortion is key to America's economic and fiscal health.
Clinton said access to abortion 'is not just about patient health and well-being, it is a matter of society, economic and fiscal health.'
She meets people who will say to her: 'It's terrible what's happening to women in Arkansas,' where she grew up before her father became president; 'It's terrible what's happening in Texas. It's terrible what's happening in Idaho.' Then she turns it to, 'Do you see what's happening in America in the year of our Lord 2025?'
Why yes, Chelsea, we're saving babies in this year of our Lord 2025!
Abortion access is a 'painfully American' problem, 'one we think that everyone needs to bear witness to,' Clinton said.
Clinton also said women added $3.5 trillion to the U.S. economy from 1973 to 2009 (because mass murder is okay when the GDP is at stake!).
Panelist Taylor from the Institute for Women's Policy Research added that abortion restrictions cost $68 billion yearly, with Texas losing $16 billion due to its pro-life laws. Bold numbers, right?
Except Texas is thriving despite those laws, and women boosted the economy long before Roe — like in the ‘40s, all while bearing children.
From LiveAction:
Women have been in the workforce since long before Roe was enacted in 1973. Many who weren't already in the workforce went to work in record numbers during and after World War II, and a large proportion of these women were mothers. Many entered the workforce out of necessity during wartime; the U.S. Labor Department identifies World War II as the turning point for the increase in women's employment outside the home.
Poland, with tight restrictions, also boasts a low maternal mortality rate, outshining Roe-era U.S. stats. So, the "abortion or bust" theory feels shaky.
Clinton's stance — that preborn lives are expendable for GDP — has a demonic edge. It echoes old excuses for slavery's economic perks, verbatim.
From LifeNews:
Ironically, she ignores how million of babies will never participate in the American workforce, and neither will their children and their children's children and so on. The killing of 66 million babies in abortion has wiped out generations of workers and future generations who could be helping America's economy. But, never mind the facts, Chelsea has an abortion agenda to peddle.
Surely we can support working women without tallying human lives as fiscal losses.
I'd rather not balance budgets with such a grim ledger, but that's just me.
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