How does a six-week abortion ban facilitate lower egg prices? Spoiler alert: no. Let’s talk about the art of distraction this week on Facts Beyond Fear.
This election cycle was tense, but many people agreed on one thing: the costs of everyday goods were simply too high. So explain to me exactly – now that Donald Trump returns to the White House in January – how reintroducing the six-week abortion ban in the Pennsylvania statehouse will facilitate curb inflation?
Because once again, the GOP isn’t giving the people anything they asked for – or voted for. Republican Stephanie Borowicz has begun seeking sponsors for legislation that would ban abortions at six weeks of pregnancy, often before a woman even realizes she is pregnant.
And let’s not forget that she was also the one who opposed House Bill 851, which creates a grant program to provide public schools with funds to distribute menstrual hygiene products for free to students. She said it would lead to communism. By the way, this bill was passed.
And interestingly, she opposed this 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 whether to start a family too much? And isn’t the situation going exactly as she feared – because the right to our bodies is fundamental – take it away, take it all away.
So what is Borowicz trying to distract us from? The fact that we still don’t have a living wage in Pennsylvania? With Democrats holding the House, this bill will likely die – again. Perhaps she should take her own advice and do something that actually gives people power over their own lives, like sponsoring bills to raise the minimum wage and protect the right to legal and unthreatening abortion. And that, my friends, is a fact.
