Feminist Peace Network

Hey guess what–if you believe in a woman’s right to have an abortion, you–yes you–are the reason that illegal immigration is a problem.  Kudos to the fine folks on a Missouri legislative panel for determining that,

“(A)bortion is partly to blame because it is causing a shortage of American workers.

The report from the state House Special Committee on Immigration Reform also says that “liberal social welfare policies” have discouraged Americans from working and have encouraged immigrants to cross the border illegally.”

According to Rep. Edgar G.H. Emery (R), the panel’s chairman,

“”You don’t have to think too long. If you kill 44 million of your potential workers, it’s not too surprising we would be desperate for workers.”

National Right to Life estimates that there have been more than 47 million abortions since the Supreme Court established a woman’s right to an abortion in its 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. The immigration report estimates that there are 80,000 fewer Missourians because of abortion, many of whom now would have been in a “highly productive age group for workers.”"

Vivirlatino points out the racist dick in brain-ness in the above line of reasoning:

“It seems that the value of a uterus is linked to if your pussy has papers.”

“None of those abortions belonged to Latina single mothers or undocumented women? Or are those ok because this is really about the right/white kind of workers? What statement is being made of who is the “American worker” or the potential American worker. Do unwed Latina women who birth citizens on this side of the U.S. border help create a new American workforce or is the real deal that our babies are on a whole different career track? “

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