In his remarks, not only does Johnson claim Roe “gave constitutional cover to the elective killing of unborn children,” but he rails against the imagined economic detriments of abortion, pushing his caucus’ outlandish claim that by depleting a hypothetical workforce, abortion has defunded social security: “Think about the implications of that on the economy. We’re all struggling here to cover the bases of social security and Medicare and Medicaid and all the rest,” Johnson says. “If we had all those able-bodied workers in the economy we wouldn’t be going upside down and toppling over like this… Roe was a terrible corruption.” Mind you, social security and health care have been gutted in the last several years by Republican lawmakers, not people who choose to end a pregnancy.

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      You think he wants women to have jobs? He wants women to keep popping out babies. That would be their job if he got his way.

      Edit: Oops. I just realized you meant the babies, not the women. I’m going to keep this comment here though because I still think it applies to Johnson.

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        He wants the babies to keep popping out babies and women to get jobs? That seems on-point for them, except for the women and jobs thing.

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          No, the women pop out the babies and the babies get the jobs. Well, the Republicans will graciously allow the babies to grow up just enough so that they can walk. After that, though, it’s “get into the factories and stick your tiny fingers into those meat grinders!”