I Hope This Has Been Taken out of Context
The following paragraph is taken from Hartwell, Georgia newspaper article about a community political breakfast:
I'm not sure where to go with this except to say that everyone needs to do some research before voting for their state legislators.
Commenting on illegal immigration, [50th District State Senator] Nancy Schaefer said 50 million abortions have been performed in this country, causing a shortage of cheap American labor. “We could have used those people,” she said.
I'm not sure where to go with this except to say that everyone needs to do some research before voting for their state legislators.
posted by Tinley | 8:44 PM
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Yikes. Yes, I hope that's just a really bad error and not someone's anti-abortion argument to be what viable workforce members those fetuses could have become.
Birth rates have economic consequences. High abortion rates contribute to a relatively low birth rate in the United States.
The numbers in Europe are even more dramatic, with real economic consequences.
Morality aside, all healthy nations have a geopolitical and economic interest in keeping birth rates high. If abortion rates are high, they contribute negatively to population growth and a growing labor pool.
So, public policy makers do have valid reasons (from an economic / labor perspective) for considering U.S. abortion rates.
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