Poverty is the core driver of #Abortion. We MUST hold politicians accountable when they say they are “pro-life” with one side of their tongues then advocate tax cuts for billionaires and cuts to Medicaid and Food Stamps and public education with the other. #freedomroadpodcast
When the GOP cut taxes for the uber-rich in 2017, they promised to pay for those cuts by cutting programs that help the poor. They followed through in 2019 with cuts to Food Stamps and continued cuts to Medicaid and the attempted annihilation of women’s health clinics. 2/
The normal impact of that legislation would have been a rise in abortion rates; as it was in 1980s with impact of Reaganomics and the impact of Bush 43 cuts to anti-poverty programs. 3/
BUT, this time the GOP has coupled federal cuts w/ state-based closers of women’s health clinics. They have snatched food off poor people’s tables, defunded their schools, poisoned their water, burned their medical insurance cards... 4/
... And after all of that, the GOP weaponized the courts and state legislatures and bolted the doors of the one place that offers capacity for poor people exercise agency over their lives. #straightupevil 5/
When politicians slash safety nets they are not pro-life. They are pro-death.
When politicians close women’s health clinics they are NOT pro-life. They are white supremacist; blocking women (mostly poor, mostly of color) from ability to exercise dominion over their lives. 6/6
When politicians close women’s health clinics they are NOT pro-life. They are white supremacist; blocking women (mostly poor, mostly of color) from ability to exercise dominion over their lives. 6/6
