Reply #5: Why do women, overall, earn less than men?

[uppityperson]

However, this argument conflates a medical procedure with future wealth, when it is actually the absence of children and the numerous expenses associated with child rearing, not abortion itself that is the basis for this.

Having and abortion=lack of child. Having the ability to have child if you want to or not to, is what having access to legal safe hygienic abortions is about. No conflation there but cause-effect.

reducing poverty would not only improve women’s economic welfare directly, but indirectly, too
Yes, reducing poverty improve's economic welfare in many ways.

Here are the facts, starting with a question. Why do women earn less than men? Because they get pregnant and have children and this impacts their ability to work. They need to take time off of varying amounts for pregnancy (some work until the day they give birth, others need months off). They are called on to take time off to deal with sick or needing infants and children (yes, I am speaking broadly and yes some men do this also). Employers have been changing since I was young. Used to be they asked during job interview AND on applications what our plans were for "having a family". There is more equality these days but it still isn't even. Why?

While delaying childbearing generally improves the economic welfare of affluent women, it lowers the economic welfare of lower income women. Several studies indicate that poor women who have children early, particularly as teens, thus being freed of child-raising duties by their late-20s to pursue employment opportunities, had higher incomes than their peers who had children in their 20s and 30s, and were less likely to be living in poverty (See Mike Males).

Link to "Mike Males" please, I would like to see this info.