How does a six-week abortion ban help bring down the price of eggs? Spoiler alert: It doesn’t. Let’s talk about the art of distraction in this week’s Facts Over Fear.
This election cycle was fraught with tension, but one thing that many people agreed on was that the cost of everyday goods was just too high. So explain to me exactly – now that Donald Trump will be back in the White House come January – how reintroducing a six week abortion ban in the Pennsylvania state House will do anything to curb inflation?
Because once again, the GOP is giving the people nothing that they’ve asked – or voted for. State Rep. Stephanie Borowicz, a Republican, has begun seeking sponsors for legislation that would ban abortion at six weeks of pregnancy, often before someone even knows they are pregnant.
And let’s not forget, she was also the one that objected to House Bill 851 which creates a grant program to provide public schools with funding to distribute menstrual hygiene products free to students. She said it would lead to communism. That bill passed, by the way.
And, interestingly enough, she objected to that bill because “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take everything away.”
But, isn’t a government that tells people when and if they start a family too big? And isn’t this playing out exactly as she feared —because the right to our bodies is fundamental — you take that away, you take everything away.
So what is Borowicz trying to distract us from? The fact that we still don’t have a living wage in Pennsylvania? With the Democrats holding the House, this bill will likely die — again. Perhaps she should take her own advice and do something that actually gives the people power over their own lives again like sponsoring bills that raise the minimum wage and protect the right to legal and safe abortion. And that my friends, is a fact.