AOC Is a Corporate Stooge on the Abortion Issue

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thinks that pro-lifers are corporate puppets. But, as is often the case with the Democratic Party, it is she who is shilling for corporations and elitists.

“I think it’s important to state that abortion is an economic issue,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “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 to work more against their will.”

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Of course, this makes no sense. To hear her tell it, pro-lifers are trying to force people to get pregnant so that … corporations can have a slave labor force? If that were the case, why would most corporations hold the same position on abortion that Ocasio-Cortez does?

Several major companies and corporations announced after the overturning of Roe v. Wade that they would pay for employees to travel out-of-state for abortions if their state imposed restrictions on abortion. That includes Amazon, Bank of America, Bumble, Cigna, Citigroup, Conde Nast, CVS Health, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Disney, Estee Lauder, Goldman Sachs, Hewlett Packard, JPMorgan Chase, Kroger, Lyft, MasterCard, Meta (the company formerly known as Facebook), Microsoft, Paramount, Starbucks, Target, and Tesla.

It also includes media companies such as BuzzFeed, CNN, the New York Times, and Vox Media. So, if this is a “class struggle,” as Ocasio-Cortez claims, how is it that banks, Big Tech, retail giants, and the establishment media ended up on her side?

Corporations would rather reimburse workers for traveling from Texas to California to have their unborn child killed than to have to pay for parental leave or find replacements while their workers take maternity leave. Amazon, for example, offers up to five months of fully paid leave for “birthing parents” (that’s “mothers” in normal, non-woke English) and up to six weeks for supporting parents. If a man and a woman in a relationship both work for Amazon and the woman becomes pregnant, the company is looking at paying them for 26 weeks of no work. It’s much cheaper for a corporation to offer $4,000 for an out-of-state abortion.

Ocasio-Cortez’s conspiracy theory about pro-lifers wanting a slave labor force for corporations is every bit as implausible and delusional as it sounds. But it is probably the only way she can mask the fact that she takes the side of the rich and powerful against the most vulnerable. If anyone is supporting a “conscripted” workforce, it is Ocasio-Cortez, who supports businesses paying women to get rid of their unborn children so they can get back to work on Monday.

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While Democrats pretend they are the party of the poor and downtrodden, their positions are increasingly shared by corporate giants, the media establishment, celebrities, the entire entertainment industry, and higher education. They are the party of the rich and the elites: Ocasio-Cortez is one of those Democrats who wants to be let into the club.