House Republican: More babies equals more jobs, so let's ban abortion
Rep. Bob Goodlatte-R_Virginia.
A Republican Jobs Plan! Of all the crap that I have read spewing from their collective mouths, I do believe that this is the icing on the cake. Gawd I hate these people! They want broodmares, nothing more and nothing less. They want to breed a new generation to serve their needs.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/15/1269897/-House-Republican-More-babies-equals-more-jobs-so-let-s-ban-abortion
Some staggering idiocy coming from Rep. Bob Goodlatte, chair of the House Judiciary Committee. As his committee was marking up an anti-abortion bill, the Virginia Republican said:
“I would suggest that it is very much the case that those of us in the majority support this legislation because it is the morally right thing to do but it is also very very true that having a growing population and having new children brought into the world is not harmful to job creation,” he said. “It very much promotes job creation for all the care and services and so on that need to be provided by a lot of people to raise children.”
Goodlatte came out with this gem in the same meeting in which Republicans voted down the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which would prohibit discrimination against pregnant women. So: If you're pregnant, you shouldn't have basic protections against your employer demanding that you lift heavy objects or preventing you from carrying a water bottle. But women should have no choice but to have more children because it would create jobs—jobs like childcare and teaching that Republicans think should pay low wages and get little respect. The job creation argument is wrong in any case:
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Now, if Goodlatte really thinks having a growing population would be good for job creation, he could always back immigration reform and get the growing population without the forced childbearing that would leave many women in poverty. But making it harder for women to control their reproductive lives is the point of the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion" Act Goodlatte was pushing. And job creation? This comment is about as serious about job creation as House Republicans have gotten in the past few years, which is to say it's not a priority, and when they claim it is they're always trying to justify something awful and unrelated.
