October 10, 2005

Then you must've heard also the one about how illegal immigration causes abortions, right?
by Liza Sabater

The obsession the right has over abortion is amazing. I am completely in disagreement with the moderate nay-sayers on the left who think the progressive discourse has been marred by the left's defense of Roe (read, women fucked up the left).

No, I think it's completely the opposite way. It's the right wingers obsession with sex and reproduction that leads to idiots like Nathan Tabor to say that illegal immigration causes abortions :

In 1973, the year that the notorious Roe v Wade decision became the law of the land, American women legally murdered 615,831 innocent unborn children. The grisly toll rose year by year, until by 1982 the number of annual abortions had doubled, reaching almost 1,304,000. Of course, these are the documented deaths, they fail to include the additional thousands of babies murdered outside the medical realm.

According to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control, the first eleven years of legal abortions in America killed about 11.9 million babies (from 1973 to 1983). If those aborted children had lived and grown to adulthood, their median age today would be 30.5 years old.

Now, the number of estimated illegal immigrants in the U.S.A. ranges from 10.3 million to 15 million; so add these two numbers together and divide by two, and you get about 12.5 million as a pretty close guesstimate of how many illegal workers, mostly Mexican, are now in America.

Is this mere coincidence, or is there some direct correlation between those two numbers, 11.9 million and 12.5 million? I think it is both. Without question, at least part of the reason why we have illegal immigrants crossing our borders in droves is because there is a need for more cheap laborers in the fields and factories of America. It is a simple economic proposition: increased demand creates its own supply.

I wish I was making this up but no, the man is serious. The whole point of this particular article is that the women's movement has brought more women to the workforce with more money and liberties. They can choose not to have kids or go ahead and have abortions. Either way, American women are killing off millions of future workers.

True, the U.S. desperately needs welfare reform. There are far too many idle Americans who could do at least some of the menial, hard and dirty jobs that now go to illegal immigrants by default. Certainly, we need to cultivate a better work ethic and an entrepreneurial spirit among our own people.

The coda for this piece and Bennett's radio comments are incredibly telling of these people. For one, Bill Bennett mis-quote Freakanomics when he said that aborting black babies would decrease crime. Time and again the authors of the book have said their studies were in no way related to race ... but as I have said before here on this blog, too many times people who say poor almost always mean black or latino or any ethnic minority as well.

Which is what is at the heart of Mr. Tabor's charade. His thesis is thus:

-- US women have jobs
-- Less women have births
-- More women have abortions
-- Less babies born
-- Less babies = less workers
-- Less workers = labor vaccum
-- More labor needs = illegal immigration
-- More illegal immigration = more Mexicans
-- More Mexicans = Less White people

Ah! The time honored tradition of scaring the whities into breeding because, and I quote, the illegal immigrants are "reclaiming the American Southwest for Mexico".

By the way, Renew America, the online "grassroots" publication where this great example of the culture of life was published, is Alan Keyes main soapbox.

Boggles the mind.

Posted by Liza Sabater in Abortion, Bio-Power, Culture of Life, Economics, Ethnicity, Extremists, Prejudice, Racism, Reproductive Rights, Republicans
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