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If you ever wonder about the ghoulishness of Democrats, consider the fact that Chelsea Clinton last week made an economic case for abortion.

Clinton told a group of activists on Saturday that legalised abortion had been a good thing — not just because it gave women “the dignity to make our own choices”, but because it had added $3.5 trillion to the economy!

“It is not a disconnected fact… that American women entering the labor force from 1973 to 2009 added three and a half trillion dollars to our economy. Right?”

More than 60 million babies have been aborted in the USA since 1973.

But don’t be upset. It’s good for business!

Wow.

Nothing says “human dignity” quite like putting a dollar figure on the economic benefits of people who were never born.

The Immigration Contradiction

But here’s the most insane part…

If you follow Democrat logic, adding millions of illegals to the country is helping the economy. But adding millions of babies to the country would hurt the economy.

The hypocrisy is never-ending.

The unborn are treated as an economic liability while mass immigration is routinely presented as an economic asset.

Apparently, the American Dream comes with an immigration visa, but not with a birth certificate.

What the Calculation Leaves Out

The truly bizarre thing about reducing abortion to an economic calculation is that it reveals precisely what is missing from the calculation: the person.

A child isn’t a negative GDP event waiting to happen.

A child is a human being who might one day invent something, cure something, build something, love someone, raise a family or simply make his parents’ lives considerably more chaotic.

And if your argument for abortion ultimately boils down to, “Think of all the economic productivity we gained,” you might want to ask what happened to the old progressive idea that human beings are more than their economic productivity.

Apparently, that principle has a fiscal-year expiry date.

Whatever your view on abortion, rejoicing that 60 million babies were never born because it might have helped the national balance sheet (a dubious claim) is a remarkably bleak way to make the case for human dignity.

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Republished with thanks to The James Macpherson Report. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.