AOC Says Pro-Life Position Designed to Help Corporations Maintain a Large Workforce
The delusion is strong with this one
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has likened the raft of pro-life laws sweeping across the country in light of the overturning of Row v. Wade to ‘economic conscription.’ She argues that by refusing to allow women to kill their babies, the mothers are forced to work several jobs to provide for the children against their will, to the advantage of employee-strapped corporations needing a large workforce.
Y”ou know, I think it’s important to state that, that abortion is an economic issue. Forcing poor and working class people to give birth, against their will, against their consent, against their ability to provide for themselves or a child, is a profound economic issue.
And it’s certainly a way to keep a workforce basically, conscripted to large scale employers and to… work more against their will, to take second and third jobs against their desire and their own autonomy.
And so the idea that abortion and access to abortion is somehow not a profound and central economic and class issue and class struggle, is certainly something that I think a person who’s never had to contend with the ability to carry a child you know, it belies that perspective.”
