During a recent SiriusXM interview, Chelsea Clinton said, “as a deeply religious person,” taking America back to the days before Roe v. Wade would be “unchristian.” As anyone may be confused by this, she attempts to explain what she means.
Clinton has been working to keep abortion legal through her advocacy work for Planned Parenthood and other abortion rights group. She explained to the interviewer that “when I think about all of the statistics — that are painful — of what women are confronting…today in our country, and what even more women confronted pre-Roe and how many women died and how many more women were maimed because of unsafe abortion practices, we just can’t go back to that.”
“That’s unconscionable to me, and also, I’m sure that this will unleash another wave of hate in my direction, but as a deeply religious person, it’s also unchristian to me,” Clinton concluded.
Well, at least she tried to explain it…unfortunately.
The former first daughter has also faced extensive backlash for a comment she made linking the “legalization of abortion” in the 1970s to economic improvement via more women being able to join the workforce because of the existence of those services.
“American women entering the labor force from 1973 to 2009 added $3.5 trillion dollars to our economy,” she said. “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.”
Clinton seems to believe that the best argument for abortion services is that it spurs economic growth is great proportions. Although she did not go as far to say that all $3.5 trillion worth in growth can be attributed to the create of abortion services, but still constitutes a big enough fraction, it is silly to even make the economic justification for ending the life of a potential human being.