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Kill The Babies To Save The Economy

Kill The Babies To Save The Economy

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May 11, 2022
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On May 7th, I posted the following tweet:

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We’re a few months from Joe Biden blaming inflation and food shortages on all the extra babies all over the place…
6:38 PM ∙ May 7, 2022
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How wrong I was…because it only took three days.

On May 10th, Biden’s Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, argued that stopping mothers from killing their babies would damage the economy.

"I believe that eliminating the rights of women to make decisions about women, whether to have children would have very damaging effects on the economy and would set women back decades," Yellen said in testimony to the Senate Banking Committee.

Let’s make a few things clear.

First, there is no “right” to murder a pre-born baby. Roe v. Wade was an abomination, which plucked the notion of a “right” to abortion out of thin air, and subsequently destroyed the actual rights of the unborn.

Second, the “decision” to murder a child in the womb is not a decision “about women.” It’s a decision that involves women, sure, by nature of the biological (and sporadically “bigoted”) fact that women carry children. But the decision also undeniably involves a second person: a person who has no voice in the decision, but stands to lose the most.

Third, the notion that preventing the murder of babies could damage the economy and “set women back decades” is simply abhorrent. Let’s presume — for sake of argument — that the economy will suffer if babies are allowed to live. This presumes that each baby has a corresponding value — in dollars and cents — describing its economic impact. This raises a question which Democrats have enjoyed asking for centuries: how much is a human being worth?

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