Chelsea Clinton: ‘Roe’ Helped Add ‘Three and a Half Trillion Dollars to Our Economy’

cnsnews.com ^ | 8/13/2018 | Craig Bannister

[rktman]

bortion has been an important economic stimulus ever since it was legalized by the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, Chelsea Clinton claimed at a "Rise Up for Roe" event on Saturday.

At the event promoting opposition to President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the former First Daughter of President Bill Clinton credited legalized abortion for helping add trillions of dollars to the U.S economy because women who had abortions were more inclined to enter the labor force:

"Whether you fundamentally care about reproductive rights and access right, because these are not the same thing, if you care about social justice or economic justice, agency – you have to care about this.

"It is not a disconnected fact – to address this t-shirt of 1973 – that American women entering the labor force from 1973 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."

Thus, no matter what other things Americans may care about, everyone should appreciate the economic value of legalized abortion, Clinton 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, come some of these other arguments that you’ve expressed so beautifully, will be."

[ScottinVA]

$3.5 trillion in what... Fetal body parts?

[RatRipper]

Oh well, argument over!! The added GDP makes murdering all those babies A-OK, huh?? /sarc

[rollo tomasi]

Democrat voters are the Party of the stupid and gullible.



Productivity/growth probably would have been better if the women did not "enter the workforce en masse" or whatever she is peddling.

Simple economics state more bodies entering the workforce = wages become watered down/decreased. Marginal cost become greater than marginal revenue (You needed government spending and a complete separation of the gold standard to survive, so Fed. Statists, spare me you BS).

Also, the United States economy is primarily based on debt/I.O.U.s with the ability to print out currency-for-bonds; bonds-for-currency razzle-dazzle among Securities/Investment banks - Federal Reserve - and the US Treasury.

Democrats, wake the hell up and call dog whistling Bullcrap that the spawn of demons just spewed!!! Republicans, cut spending (Including your own pet projects).

[RatRipper]

I think she is better suited for a bit part as a hyena in an Animal Planet documentary. . . . :)

[jonrick46]

Those aborted human beings from our labor force may have added ten times the $3.5 Trillion to our economy and, those in their later years, would have had a more secure Social Security. Of course those Leftist nitwits like Chelsea would have heralded Soylent Green as a boost to the economy after it was determined that people shouldn’t live past age 65.

[mulligan]

What a sick and evil comment. Killing babies is a plus? That girl needs a ‘God’ talking too.

[Rad_J]

I thought that she said no matter how hard she tried, she just couldn’t care about money. Liar!

[mort56]

What a truly sick human being. Although I’m not surprised. Look at her pathetic parents.

[Jeff Chandler]

Democrats stand upon the bodies of the dead and hide behind children. H’s evil spawn is doing both.

[WKUHilltopper]

Yeah, Chelsea—criminal scum? The Third Reich made lots of money murdering people too.

[gibsonguy]

If this idiot had an original thought it would die of loneliness

[lurk]

Pragmatism. It’s fun, for the killers.

[Will88]

I guess this dumbass doesn’t realize how much the birth and rearing of a child adds to the economy, and that does not preclude the woman from also being employed for most of her adult life.

[TigersEye]

Talk about blood money.

To be a Clinton is to be a demon.

[tom h]

I’m certain the Nazis had excellent economic justifications for ridding Europe of those pesky Jews, too.

And let’s not forget that the Nazis called the disabled “useless eaters” before gassing them as well.

Chelsea had no idea, I expect, that she was in good company with Hitler, Eichmann, and his most trusted confidantes.

[Ohioan]

It might be an interesting subject for debate, whether we should cut the girl some slack, for this truly weird material pretense, because her mother is what she is—and has been since her college days, or not? I do not pretend to have an answer. But arguing that in effect paying girls to kill their babies is somehow either good economics or in any sense moral, is staggering in its implications.

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

And similarly the German economy exploded in the 30s while the Nazis were killing the Jews.

[Alberta's Child]

Based on her zany logic, American employers should fire every female employee and replace them all with men ... because the woman allegedly earn less than 80% of what men are paid.

[Blogger]

And explain those numbers to her own generation when there is nobody around to provide for social security, medicare, infrastructure, etc., Dumber than a rock.

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