{"id":7128,"date":"2006-04-13T10:39:03","date_gmt":"2006-04-13T14:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7128"},"modified":"2006-04-13T10:39:03","modified_gmt":"2006-04-13T14:39:03","slug":"abortion-as-the-root-of-the-immigration-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/abortion-as-the-root-of-the-immigration-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion as ‘the root’ of the immigration ‘problem’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago, I noted<\/a> that Georgia State Sen. Nancy Schaefer (R) crafted a bizarre connection<\/a> between abortion and immigration when she argued, “I am convinced it is a consequence [of] the almost 50 million children we have put to death in their mother’s womb through abortion. The large, unfilled job market in Georgia would not be a problem if the almost 50 million Americans were here, filling many of those jobs.”<\/p>\n

Of course, Schaefer is just an obscure far-right state lawmaker. No one else could take this seriously, right? Alas, the abortion-immigration nexus seems to be catching on<\/a> with conservatives. (thanks to R.P. for the tip)<\/p>\n

During the April 11 broadcast of his daily BreakPoint radio commentary, convicted Watergate felon and Prison Fellowship Ministries founder Charles W. Colson claimed that legalized abortion created a labor shortage, forcing the United States to solicit undocumented workers from other countries to fill jobs that might have otherwise been occupied by the “40 million sacrificed since 1973,” when the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion.<\/p>\n

Colson asked: “But what’s the root of the [illegal immigration] problem? Why do we have a shortage of workers? Aha, that’s the unspeakable ‘A’ word that the elite dread the most: abortion.” According to Colson, “The reason we must allow millions of illegal aliens in to fill these jobs is because we have murdered a generation that would otherwise be filling them: 40 million sacrificed since 1973 to the god of self-fulfillment. And Americans are barely maintaining a replacement-level birthrate of 2.1 children per woman.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Keep in mind, Colson is still a pretty major player in religious right circles. As Media Matters noted<\/a>, Colson’s radio show reportedly draws a million listeners.<\/p>\n

Maybe this lunacy will be quickly dismissed by more sensible voices in the immigration debate, but if this trend keeps up, we may be looking at one of the right’s favorite new talking points. Be afraid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago, I noted that Georgia State Sen. Nancy Schaefer (R) crafted a bizarre connection between abortion and immigration when she argued, “I am convinced it is a consequence [of] the almost 50 million children we have put to death in their mother’s womb through abortion. The large, unfilled job market in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}