Four days ago, AOC said something really dumb and wrong.

That alone, of course, would not be particularly newsworthy, since the news typically endeavors

to present stories that are unusual.

But this particular viral dietripe caught my attention, not because AOC's argument is wrong,

but because it is perfectly wrong.

Take a listen.

I think it's important to state that abortion is an economic issue, forcing poor and working

class people to give birth against their will, against their consent, against their ability

to provide for themselves or a child is a profound economic issue.

And it's certainly a way to keep a workforce basically conscripted to large scale employers

and to work more against their will to take second and third jobs against their desire

and their own autonomy.

And so the idea that abortion and access to abortion is somehow not a profound and central

economic and class issue and class struggle is certainly something that I think a person

who's never had to contend with the ability to carry a child.

It belies that perspective.

So AOC's argument is that abortion is an important tool of the working class of the proletariat

to shake off the bonds of its capitalist oppressors.

And if that's the case, then how come all the big corporations are subsidizing it?

How come after the dobs decision came down overruling Roe v Wade, how come Google and Walmart

and Amazon and pretty much every big company in the country sent out a press release promising

to reimburse the costs of female employees who want to travel out of state to abort

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