By ELAINE MAGLIARO
During a debate over an anti-abortion bill in the House of Representatives, Congressman Bob Goodlatte of Virginia made the suggestion that his fellow 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.’” Goodlatte made his comments while he was presiding over a committee mark-up of the “No Taxpayer Funding For Abortion Act,” or HR 7. Tara Culp-Ressler of ThinkProgress wrote that the “legislation would dramatically restrict women’s access to affordable abortion care by imposing restrictions on insurance coverage and tax credits for the procedure.”
According to Culp-Ressler, Goodlatte explained his reasoning for anti-choice legislation: “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.”
Sources/Further Reading
Congressman’s New Jobs Plan: Deny Women Access To Abortion So They Can Make More Babies (ThinkProgress)
H.R. 7: A Dangerous and Misleading Bill that Threatens Women’s Health (National Women’s Law Center)
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“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.”
if that is the case then why not increase the care and services for children we already have. Wouldn’t that also tend to increase job creation?
bfm,
Stop making sense.
…and promote immigration.
Rep. Goodlatte chairs the House Judiciary Committee. He is no random crazy republican.
SwM,
I believe he has been in office since the early 90’s(?) and seems to win easily win reelection in his district
The local medical center and teaching hospital is laying off about 90 staff members in the next few days. They are already marginally staffed for the services they provide. The reason given is cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, as well as more obstacles put up by insurance companies. The governor did not want the Federal money that would have expanded Medicaid because that goes against Republican values. But they are want women to have more babies that won’t get medical care, in order to increase jobs for health care workers.
I am confused.
Why did Satan create sex and people who don’t look like us?
It is a very taxing conundrum.
Men dominate House anti-abortion law hearing
By Laura Clawson
1/15/14
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/15/1269825/-Men-dominate-House-anti-abortion-law-hearing
Elaine,
As long as Alex Jones, the GOP keep making war against women they will keep losing votes.
Even Ron Paul has a better position on the issue then Jones.
I once read Roe V Wade back in the 70’s & agreed with it.
Alex Jones calls himself a Libertarian/Constitutionalist, well if he truly is about Liberty & Freedom I would suggest he goes back & digs up the 2 page interview of Chief Justice
Warren E. Burger in the Washington Post from after the Roe V Wade decision.
The key piece of the decision & Burger’s interview was that he nor the govt knew when life begins though there was a bit of a general idea when it does.
Burger’s opinion gave the people (Women, not old men), more liberty/freedom by letting them decide for themselves.
I don’t like it there are abortions & hope they can be avoided, but there’s no way in hell I, an older guy, am going to tell some young gal she has to keep that rape baby.
i’m going to try that as my new pick-up line.
Hey baby, wanna create some jobs.
More on HR 7:
House Republicans Are Pushing A Bill That Would Force The IRS To Audit Rape Victims
By Tara Culp-Ressler
January 16, 2014
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/01/16/3167301/taxpayer-funding-abortion-rape-irs/
Excerpt:
House Republicans are currently advancing the “No Taxpayer Funding For Abortion Act,” or HR 7, a measure that would impose sweeping restrictions on abortion coverage that could make the procedure less affordable for Americans across the country. In addition to preventing low-income women from using their Medicaid coverage to access abortion, HR 7 could also have dramatic implications for the tax code and the private insurance market. One of its most controversial provisions could actually require the Internal Revenue Service to conduct audits of rape victims.
Why? Because HR 7 eliminates medical-expense deductions for abortion care, essentially raising taxes on the women who opt to have an abortion. Like many abortion restrictions, this provision includes an exemption for victims of rape and incest, as well as women who encounter life-threatening complications from their pregnancies. But in order to enforce those exceptions, the IRS would have to verify that the women who are claiming a medical-expense deduction for an abortion fall into one of those three categories, to ensure they’re not committing tax fraud.