Stacey Abrams: To Fight Inflation, Have an Abortion

Stacey Abrams suggests abortions are a way to fight inflation: Georgia Democrat says 'having children is why you’re worried about' rising prices - and you can't separate 'unwanted pregnancies' from 'economic issues'

• The Georgia gubernatorial candidate appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe
• Abrams insisted that reproductive rights are tied to economic welfare 
• 'You cannot divorce an unwanted pregnancy from the economic realities of having a child,' the voting rights activist said
• Democrats across the country are trying to energize voters on the fallout of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in June 

Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams insisted that abortion rights and today's economic issues are intertwined during a TV interview on Wednesday morning.

Her critics immediately accused the progressive activist of offering abortion as a way to fight out-of-control inflation that's currently plaguing Americans across the country.

She was asked on MSNBC's Morning Joe, 'I would assume, maybe incorrectly, but while abortion is an issue - it nowhere reaches the level of interest of voters in terms of the cost of gas, food, bread, milk, things like that...what could you do as governor to alleviate the concerns of Georgia voters about those livability, daily, hourly issues that they're confronted with?'

Abrams pivoted the conversation back to abortion rights, countering that whether or not to have a child is an economic issue as much as a reproductive issue.

'Let’s be clear - having children is why you’re worried about your price for gas, it’s why you’re worried about how much food costs,' the Georgia Democrat said.

'You cannot divorce pregnancy from the economic realities of having a child.'

Stacey Abrams told MSNBC on Wednesday morning that abortion rights cannot be 'separated' from economic issues

'We don’t have the luxury of separating them out,' Abrams said. 

'Having a child is absolutely an economic issue.'

Former Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany reacted to Abrams' sentiments on Twitter: 'This is truly sick! Unbelievable...' 

'Wait a minute, [Stacey Abrams] believes and want you to believe having an abortion is a good way to drive down the cost of gas and food? DAMN!' wrote former Georgia Republican House hopeful Vernon Jones.

Atlanta-based minister and podcast host Darrell B. Harrison added that Abrams 'makes Margaret Sanger look like Mother Teresa.'

Newsweek editor Josh Hammer dismissed her comments as 'Positively ghoulish.'