Republican representatives in the great state of Missouri have decided to sign on to a committee report declaring legal abortion is to blame for illegal immigration.
Just try to follow their logic:
"We hear a lot of arguments today that the reason that we can't get serious about our borders is that we are desperate for all these workers," [Rep. Edgar G.H. Emery (R)] said. ... The immigration report estimates that there are 80,000 fewer Missourians because of abortion, many of whom now would have been in a "highly productive age group for workers."
Got that? Illegal immigration is a result of a shortage of American workers, and this shortage is due to legal abortion. So all we have to do is outlaw abortion, and immigrants will stop crossing the border illegally.
I'd have to agree with the six Democrats on the committee who chose not to sign the statement, calling it "ridiculous," "embarrassing" and "a little delusional."
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I'm sorry, I cannot follow this logic at all!
Delusional. Heh.
I believe the logic follows in that they don't care about these "babies" as human beings but instead things that will grow up to be consumers and workers in order to feed into the machine. And this is coming from my home state. Damn.
I don't even get what they're trying to say. Are they saying that legal abortion "killed off" America's working class, or that legal abortion in the United States is making women from countries where abortion is illegal flock over here? First, outsourcing killed off America's working class, and those jobs are going to countries where many people escape from to come to the US looking for jobs (ironic, huh?). Second, maybe the US should dispose of their global gag rule and help women instead of push their out-of-touch morals on them.
Wait, they forgot something. According to Bush, immigrants only take the jobs that Americans don't want!* So there would just be 80,000 more unemployed Missourians, right?
*Of course, this isn't true. If we had absolutely no immigration, the wages of the jobs "Americans don't want" would rise and then Americans would want those jobs (and companies who couldn't pay the market wage would go out of business). Not sayin' I'm opposed to immigration, just sayin' that's how the market works.
The continuous blaming of feminists is exhausting but in this case it is the illogic that is exhausting.