Tom DeLay Wants to Put Fetuses to Work

Posted by Guest Blogger at 11:02 AM on July 23, 2007.

Ann Friedman: DeLay and his friends on the far right have some warped ideas about how to do away with illegal immigration.

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This post, written by Ann Friedman, originally appeared on Feministing

Disgraced former CongressmanTom DeLay tells college Republicans that it's not NAFTA, not economic inequality, not years of failing policies that have brought us to our current immigration crisis. Nope, it's abortion rights. (Forward to the 3:45 minute-mark on this video to watch DeLay say this with a straight face.)

If you believe abortion, if you believe that doesn't affect you... I contend it affects you in immigration. If we had those 40 million children that were killed over the last 40 years, we wouldn't need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today. Think about it.

Right! If all those white women hadn't had abortions, we'd have plenty of good, upstanding white folks to fill the jobs the scary brown people do now!

Seems like a crazy, fringe perspective, no? All sorts of places are linking to DeLay's comments as if this is news. But this has been a relatively popular talking point of the radical conservative, forced-pregnancy movement for quite awhile.

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yep... [Report this comment] Posted by: JoshuaLudd on Jul 23, 2007 11:05 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] ... just trying to pick the skin color of their endentured-servant underclass. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] beq [Report this comment] Posted by: beq on Jul 23, 2007 11:12 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] WHY?! ...does this guy get a microphone? [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » Because Republicans respect felons. Posted by: JoshuaLudd Thanks Tom [Report this comment] Posted by: eddie torres on Jul 24, 2007 8:42 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Maybe the federal minimum wage would have been raised to $5.95 instead of $5.85 if all those slave laborers in chicken processing plants and Katrina tent cities had white skin instead of brown skin. And in 2009... wow! All the way to $7.25. With those extra pennies, a white-skinned poverty class could finally afford to buy that bottle of ephedrine-based cough syrup for their asthma-afflicted children (with a legal ID, of course). [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] That's odd [Report this comment] Posted by: LonewackoDotCom2 on Jul 24, 2007 8:39 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] There isn't anything in Delay's quote about the races involved, and those aborted were all different races, no? And, those supporting the importation of a foreign serf class are not just those who donated to the GOP, but "liberals" as well. And, of course, there are other policies that have brought us massive IllegalImmigration, including the desire by some to join the U.S. and Mexico, something that - oddly enough - this site has also tried and failed to downplay. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

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