House Republican: More babies equals more jobs, so let's ban abortion

[kpete]

During a debate over an anti-abortion bill currently advancing in Congress, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) suggested that Republicans support restricting access to abortion because it will ultimately benefit the economy if women have more children. Goodlatte noted that carrying pregnancies to term “very much promotes job creation.”:

“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.”

THE REST:
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/01/15/3168601/congressman-births-job-creation/

[get the red out]

1. Sure

As teachers are cut everywhere, funding for people to feed and raise kids if they are poor is cut; yea that's a job creator. In reality, it puts women in their place, barefoot and pregnant. And it puts more children into poverty, which he couldn't care about in the slightest.

[atreides1]

2. Need to read between the lines

Poor children can become our servants...is really what he's trying to say!

[Lady Freedom Returns]

3. Ah yes the Republican party! A.K.A...

The Beavis and Butthead party!

These people have no scene of the real world!

[NuclearDem]

4. Not jobs. Soldiers for the 1%'s next generation of imperialist adventures.

[Oilwellian]

5. This stupid fuck is my Rep

[Aristus]

6. Jesus! How fucking stupid IS this asshole?

We can't employ people who have already been born! What the fuck is he talking about?

[JoePhilly]

7. That premise is stupid on so many levels.

The one I'd hit him with, just to make his head spin ...

Why would he think a woman would have more children?

Women usually have some idea of how many children they intend to have, total, in their life time.

On average, that number is 2-3. Not allowing abortion won't change that overall average.

The more likely effect is that a woman would stop having additional children earlier, because once they have that 2nd child, they'll stop having kids altogether.

He clearly thinks woman are unthinking baby machines.

[MisterP]

8. ah, like Kenya or the Ivory Coast