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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