Posted on 05/10/2022 10:43:46 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday argued that banning abortion would be “very damaging” for the economy by reducing women’s ability to balance their careers and their families.
“I believe that eliminating the right of women to make decisions about when and whether to have children would have very damaging effects on the economy and would set women back decades,” she said in response to a question at a Senate Banking Committee hearing.
In her comments, Yellen said the 1973 ruling helped allow women to finish school and increase their earning potential, leading to higher participation in the workforce.
“Research also shows that it had a favorable impact on the well-being and earnings of children,” she said. “There are many research studies that have been done over the years looking at the economic impacts of access or lack thereof to abortion, and it makes clear that denying women access to abortion increases their odds of living in poverty or need for public assistance.”
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) later in the hearing pressed her on her answer, arguing that framing the issue of abortion around labor force participation “feels callous to me.”
“It means that children will grow up in poverty and do worse themselves,” Yellen responded. “This is not harsh. This is the truth.”
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Uhm...”Burn in hell”?
Banning abortion would irreparably harm the trade in baby body parts.
There you have it … population control to eliminate the poor and minorities.
She said the quiet part out loud.
It may also cause Climate Change and would probably make Putin invade Poland.
In that case, IQ tests for all, anyone under the norm gets gassed…
What a complete idiot
Women? I am unfamiliar with that word.
Plenty of women have figured out how to work, go to school and raise kids at the same time.
70 million or more dead.
Some could be grandparents by now.
Tell me again how abortion is a boon? Because the ground is soaked in innocent blood that cries out to the Lord for justice....
The slaughterhouse known as Planned Parenthood gives BILLIONS of dollars to Democrats..so the Dems dont want to lose their cash cow
I have no words for such stupid statements. Why bother anyway?
I always look to an old failed libtard treasury Fed to convince me genocide is good 🤪
And money laundered into the DNC.
Dogs and cats living together...
Dumb cow needs to stay in her lane
Manifest evil
Stay in your lane Yellen.
Its all about killing the black babies, she said.
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