Nov

19

Abortion and immigration: Show Me the connection

[From feministing]

Republican representatives in the great state of Missouri have decided to sign on to a committee report declaring legal abortion is to blame for illegal immigration.

Just try to follow their logic:

“We hear a lot of arguments today that the reason that we can’t get serious about our borders is that we are desperate for all these workers,” [Rep. Edgar G.H. Emery (R)] said. … 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.”

Got that? Illegal immigration is a result of a shortage of American workers, and this shortage is due to legal abortion. So all we have to do is outlaw abortion, and immigrants will stop crossing the border illegally.

I’d have to agree with the six Democrats on the committee who chose not to sign the statement, calling it “ridiculous,” “embarrassing” and “a little delusional.”

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