Chelsea Clinton: Abortion Has Added $3.5 Trillion to Our Economy

by Rod D. Martin
August 17, 2018

My old and dear friend Ky Harrod posted an article on Facebook -- at which he was and you should be horrified -- in which Chelsea Clinton ludicrously claims that "abortion has added $3.5 trillion to our economy." He rightly notes that "Of course, she does not factor in the lost productively of 60 million aborted Americans."

Indeed she does not. Her (evil) math is ridiculous. But not only for Ky's wise reason.

How many Einsteins were among those 60 million? How many Bachs? How many Churchills, and Rockefellers, and Spurgeons?

And how many just regular folks, who would have raised lovely families, and been productive citizens, and loved and been loved?

Even if Chelsea's math made any sense at all, the reduction to ledger numbers of all those lost lives is the math of a concentration camp or a gulag, the central planning-think of the 20th century's greatest (statist) nightmares.

In response, we hear inanities such as that it would be worse to be an "unwanted chi…