MO Republicans issue report connecting immigration to abortion (MAN, are they dumb!)

[Crankie Avalon]

BROADSHEET

FETAL LABOR

Holy crazy Republican legislators from Missouri, Batman!

Sit down, this one's going to blow your mind: According to the Associated Press, a 16-member Missouri legislative panel has submitted a report asserting that the U.S. has created a market for illegal immigrants by aborting all the Americans who would otherwise have held their jobs.

The report, from the state's House Special Committee on Immigration Reform, is so embarrassing that none of the six Democrats on the panel would sign their name to it, though all 10 Republicans did.

The report also includes the claim that "liberal social welfare policies" keep government aid recipients living so high on the hog that they are unmotivated to get jobs, again creating a vacuum that pulls illegal immigrants across the border to work in terrible conditions for pennies an hour in their place.

The abortion-and-welfare stuff was written into the report by Rep. Ed Emery, the committee chairman. "The lack of traditional work ethic, combined with the effects of 30 years of abortion and expanding liberal social welfare policies, have produced a shortage of workers and a lack of incentive for those who can work," the report reads.

And Emery helpfully expanded on this for the AP, telling it, "We hear a lot of arguments today that the reason that we can't get serious about our borders is that we are desperate for all these workers ... You don't have to think too long. If you kill 44 million of your potential workers , it's not too surprising we would be desperate for workers."

But maybe Emery should try thinking a little longer. One problem we're not facing in the United States? A population decline. On Oct. 17, the population hit 300,000,001. The fertility rate in the United States is 2.13 babies per mother, higher than the stable population replacement rate of 2.1 babies. Of course, many of those 2.13 babies are born to illegal immigrant mothers, but at least as of now, they still count as Americans -- and by Emery's calculations, as potential future laborers.

More: http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/