Georgia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams gave her solution to inflation in a new interview, saying that women should just get an abortion to alleviate the burden of inflation.
Abrams, who lost the gubernatorial race for Georgia in 2018 and spent the next few years notoriously refusing to concede her loss to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, made the comments during an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe after she was questioned on the importance of abortion compared to the record-breaking inflation that has occurred under President Biden’s administration.
“Having children is why you’re worried about your price for gas. It’s why you’re concerned about how much food costs,” Abrams said.
“For women, this is not a reductive issue,” she continued. “You can’t divorce being forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy from the economic realities of having a child.”
“Women, half the population, especially those of childbearing age, they understand that having a child is absolutely an economic issue,” Abrams added. “It is only politicians who see it as simply another cultural conversation. It is a real biological and economic imperative conversation that women need to have.”
Abrams’ comments come shortly after she denied biological reality by saying unborn babies’ heartbeats aren’t real but are actually a “manufactured sound designed” to allow men to “take control of a woman’s body.”
“There is no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks,” Abrams said while serving on a panel. “It is a manufactured sound designed to convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman’s body in place of her.”
Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams: "There is no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks. It is a manufactured sound designed to convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman's body."
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While Abrams did not explain who was manufacturing this sound, her comments deny well known biology. As explained by the nonprofit Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI), “There is a functional, beating heart in every human being by 6 weeks of gestation.”
“The early embryonic heartbeat is best detected using doppler ultrasonography. This measures the movement of the beating heart. Ultrasonography does not measure electrical activity, it measures pulses of high-frequency sound reflected off solid objects,” the CLI added. “At 6 weeks, the embryo’s heart is beating rhythmically, and the heart can be easily identified.”
“While some people falsely claim that a preborn baby at 6 weeks’ gestation is just a clump of cells, science demonstrates the baby is already a complex human being,” explained Dr. Tara Sander Lee, a senior fellow and director of life sciences at CLI. “A preborn baby’s heart is actively beating at 6 weeks and will have already beat nearly 16 million times by 15 weeks. In fact, at 6 weeks’ gestation, the baby’s heart rate is about 98 beats per minute, which can be easily detected by ultrasound.”
