Chelsea Clinton
Credits ABORTION With Saving The American Economy At Planned Parenthood Event
The former First Daughter claimed Roe helped "add
three and a half trillion dollars to our economy."
ByEmily Zanotti
August 14, 2018
Chelsea Clinton expressed her extreme gratitude for
abortion rights at the "Rise Up for Roe" event last Saturday, and
credited abortion with saving the American economy.
The number of women in the workforce has exploded since
the early 1970s, a fact Clinton credits to the widespread availability of
abortion services. She speculated to an audience of
abortion rights activists that, without the unfettered ability to
eliminate their unborn children, women would have been relegated to their
kitchens, chained to their home appliances, and oppressed under the thumb of
their Patriarchal husbands.
"Whether you fundamentally care about reproductive
rights and access right, because these are not the same thing, if you care
about social justice or economic justice, agency — you have to care about
this," Clinton said. "It is not a disconnected fact — to address this
t-shirt of 1973 — that American women entering the labor force from 1973 to
2009 added three and a half trillion dollars to our economy. Right?"
"The net, new entrance of women — that is not
disconnected from the fact that Roe became the law of the land in January of
1973," she continued.
Clinton is missing other significant factors: the
introduction of safe chemical birth control pills, advances in technology that
gave us the vacuum cleaner and the microwave, and a cultural shift towards
women's rights that began in the late 1960s as part of the anti-war movement.
Feminism may have given birth to Roe v. Wade (ironically),
but the landmark abortion rights decision is hardly the only thing
standing in between women and full time jobs, advanced education, and respect
in the workplace — unless, of course, women are only the sum of their
reproductive parts, a theory many modern feminists seem to espouse.
Clinton closed out her argument against overturning Roe
v. Wade by stressing that American economic growth is so closely tied to
abortion that the argument should convince any fence-sitting pro-lifer that
they should leave abortion alone.
"So, I think, whatever it is that people say they
care about, I think that you can connect to this issue," Clinton said.
"Of course, I would hope that they would care about our equal rights and
dignity to make our own choices — but, if that is not sufficiently persuasive,
hopefully, come some of these other arguments that you’ve expressed so
beautifully, will be."
The "Rise Up for Roe" event kicked off a
multi-million dollar pro-abortion campaign headlined by Planned Parenthood, the
National Organization for Women (NOW), and the National Abortion Rights Action
League (NARAL), against confirming Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
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