Chelsea Clinton suggested during a progressive event over the weekend that the legalization of abortion was a boon to the U.S. economy.
At the “Rise Up for Roe Tour,” which kicked off Saturday in New York City, the former first daughter of President Bill Clinton argued that the Supreme Court’s landmark 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade added more than $3 trillion to the economy by women entering the workforce.
“Whether you kind of fundamentally care about reproductive rights and access, right, because again these are not the same thing — if you care about social justice or economic justice, agency — you have to care about this,” she said, according to a clip published by the Media Research Center. “It is not a disconnected fact … that American women entering the labor force from 1970 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 said. “So, I think, whatever it is that people say they care about, I think that you can connect to this issue. 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 some of these other arguments that you’re hearing expressed so beautifully will be.”
Ms. Clinton’s comments were met with backlash online. She responded to one critic late Monday after he accused her of treating abortion like a “numbers game.”
James- I am thankful to be my parents’ daughter (you misspelled Rodham), my kids’ mom & for my elementary to graduate school teachers for nurturing critical thinking. Pro-choice is pro-life. Finally, more on our health work at @ClintonFdn, @CHAI_health & @HealthierGen. Blessings. https://t.co/Rf8rxIsdsz
— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) August 14, 2018
The “Rise Up for Roe Tour” is a 14-day, 10-city tour targeting President Trump’s Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh and the purported threat he poses to abortion rights.
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Chelsea is absolutely correct. Murder can be a very lucrative enterprise. From all indications, her family has been benefiting greatly from both the abortion industry and the not infrequent, suspicious and sudden demise of those who threaten their position or cash flow.
So by legalizing abortion, we allowed 100,000s of selfish women to enter the workforce while killing millions of those who could’ve entered the workforce 20 yrs later? Typical Liberal Illogic. These people really are insane. Kavanaugh needs to get confirmed ASAP and we need to end this nonsense once and for all.
I certainly HOPE, if/when Kavenaugh is confirmed, he helps overturn RVW..
Who gives a tinker’s damn what she thinks? She’s obviously an idiot with no moral character (thanks to her parents). No matter how hard you try you cannot fix stupid!
Murder for hire, the Clinton clan certainly knows a lot about this. And Chelsea, your mom’s five abortions must have been a windfall – for the physicians only.
Geeeze, this person has got to be the poster-child for “dumb grunt” (if you know what I mean)… Does she really believe that ALL of these women had an abortion that allowed them the “freedom” to work, or that they were so special that no one else could have done their jobs? But, she is a liberal democrat, what am I saying…
Of the millions upon millions of abortions, how many Steven Hawkings, Aristotles, Marie Curies, MIchelangelos, Isaac Newtons, Joan of Arcs, Socrates, Susan B. Anthonys, Johann Bachs, Abraham Lincolns, Alice Pauls, Thomas Edisons, Nikola Teslas etc. etc. did abortionists wipe out. Anyone who thumps their chests for playing God is actually the devil.
she is right a lot of money has been made selling baby parts. they have to be born alive then chopped up for the best price
The (lack of) logic goes like this:
The 60+ million babies murdered by abortion would never have bought anything, never sold anything, never produced anything, never solved any problems, never have produced any other children who would have done anything of value in this country. Thus, we are enriched by their absence in society. We are further enriched by the mentality that justifies their brutal slaughter (which is the American Holocaust).
Hitler would have been thrilled by abortion in this country.
Once again Chelsea opens her mouth and STUPID falls out! She and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ought to take their act on the road–they could compete with each other to see who could say the DUMBEST thing. It would be a RIOT! 😀
Chelsea really should NOT be trying to formulate political economic theories based on past events. For one thing, she is ABYSMALLY IGNORANT about history. And for another, she is simply NOT equipped to “formulate” theories about anything, without revealing what an IDIOT she really is!
It certainly would be funny seeing which was the dumbest..
I wonder if she thought this up all by herself ? Or did she have help.
As stupid and ill-formed as this idea was, I’m pretty sure Chelsea did that all by herself!
She certainly keeps proving that all clintons are dumb as a box o rocks..
What would have been the economic impact if 60 million babies had been allowed to live? What discoveries would have been made? What diseases would have been cured? What social ills might have been solved? I guess we will never know because the liberals and sexual revolutionists convinced some women that children are a problem, not a joy, and that for women to succeed, they had to able to submit to sex without the possibility of pregnancy. Remember The regretted her actions.
She missed several key points. Many of those aborted babies would have gone on welfare and or prison.
I’ve always thought rowing was drier than wading. Besides you can put your rod down while you row.
Of course Planed Parenthood began as a program to reduce the number of black babies. Will Chelsea admit that historical fact. The KKK began and has its home in the Democrat Party.
The Republican Party began and still is the Party of anti-slaverly.
Over 60.5 million human beings have been killed by abortion since Roe v. Wade. If you are going to look at the economic ramifications of that legal decision as Ms. Clinton is doing then you better also consider what the economic and societal ramifications of losing that many citizens has done to our country as well. We struggle with more people taking out Social Security than people putting into the system imagine what another 60 mil. people working would do for the economy. We have serious social problems which one could link to the prevalence of abortions. We have created a society where life is not held sacred and have seen violence in many forms increase since 1973. We have absentee parents who are so busy being out in the work force that they have allowed either institutions (schools, day care, etc.) to raise their children or have simply let kids raise themselves. If Ms. Clinton wants to really look at all the ramifications of Roe v. Wade she needs to go a lot deeper than more women in the work force.
This is a prime example of what the left seems to think it does best. In the absence of facts, the left creates their own facts to whatever narrative they are pushing. This has absolutely nothing to do with women entering the workforce and adding $3 trillion to the economy. We’ll hear more tidbits and gems like this in the coming days as part of the Rise Up For Roe Tour which is nothing more than a concerted effort by the left to block Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
The real reason libtards don’t want Roe overturned isn’t because pro-choice is pro-life but they want to continue to be personally and sexually reckless and irresponsible adhering to the concept of YOLO (you only live once) and therefore be able to spread their legs for whoever whenever and should they get pregnant, they can use abortion as a form of birth control. Considering how many contraceptive measure are out there this seems almost like an extreme and barbaric choice of birth control. And leave it up to libtards to actually find a way to monetize such a barbaric act by selling the harvested body parts of a baby.
The Internet is an amazing tool. It is a powerful antipropaganda weapon. All we need now is to teach critical thinking skills in our “progressive” schools.
Here’s an interesting find about abortion. It took all of 25 seconds to find. Do “progressives” REALLY want the public to know:
It has been estimated that since 1973 Black women have had about 10 million abortions [probably up to 13 million now]. Michael Novak . . . calculated, “Since the number of current living Blacks (in the U.S.) is 31 million, the missing 10 million represents an enormous loss, for without abortion, America’s Black community would now number 41 million persons. It would be 35 percent larger than it is. Abortion has swept through the Black community like a scythe, cutting down every fourth member.” Yet
Progressives CLAIM to be the friends of Black Americans. A smile on the one hand, and a willing knife in the other? Just sayin!