Stacey Abrams is running for governor of Georgia mostly on the grounds of abortion.
“While abortion is an issue, I would assume it nowhere reaches the level of interest for voters of the cost of gas, food, bread, milk, things like that,” Mike Barnicle on MSNBC said to Abrams. “What could you do as governor to alleviate the concerns of Georgia voters about those livability daily, hourly issues that they’re confronted with?”
Abrams went back to abortion, though. “Let’s be clear, having children is why you’re worried about your price for gas. It’s why you’re worried about how much food costs. For women, this is not a reductive issue. You can’t divorce being forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy from the economic realities of having a child.”
STACEY ABRAMS IS STILL AN ELECTION DENIER
Chew on this answer for a moment. The surface layer of Abrams’s answer is that inflation shouldn’t matter so much: The skyrocketing of prices is something that people ought to be able to shrug off. Why can’t people shrug it off as easily as Stacey Abrams would like? Because of abortion law, she says.
How do laws protecting unborn babies with heartbeats make inflation more painful? Because they result in people having families, and feeding a family is more expensive than feeding yourself.
This argument is perverse in many ways.
For starters, Abrams is advocating abortion as birth control. She is also advocating abortion as a counter-inflationary measure. Bread prices doubled in 24 months? No big deal, just abort little Emma, and your budget can stay on track.
But Abrams isn’t just talking about abortion. She’s talking about reproduction in general.
“Having children is why you’re worried about your price for gas,” she stated. Set aside, for a minute, the assertion that childless people aren’t worried about the price of gas and think about what she’s saying here: The way to weather economic hardship is to have no children.
So Abrams’s case was broader than simply a materialistic defense of abortion. She was arguing against having children. Stay childless, and you can stomach any economic turbulence that may come your way.
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This is quite the apologia for a party that has exacerbated inflation through its reckless runaway spending and anti-energy policies: You wouldn’t be so harmed by our policies had you just kept your pants on and your life solitary.
