Abortion is a bread-and-butter economic issue. We need to treat it that way

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Access to birth control and abortion laid the groundwork for US women to begin to claim financial, professional and educational equality - a goal still far from realized, overall, but reproductive rights flattened the mountains and filled in the chasms a little.
46% : It cites among its justifications that "attitudes about the pregnancy of unmarried women have changed drastically; that federal and state laws ban discrimination on the basis of pregnancy; that leave for pregnancy and childbirth are now guaranteed by law in many cases; that the costs of medical care associated with pregnancy are covered by insurance or government assistance; that states have increasingly adopted "safe haven" laws, which generally allow women to drop off babies anonymously; and that a woman who puts her newborn up for adoption today has little reason to fear that the baby will not find a suitable home".
37% : Abortion is an economic issue, because when it's not legal, those are the two remaining options, leaving out being dead, which you could argue is either very expensive or absolutely beyond the realms of money and price.
37% : Also, now that abortion is unavailable under almost all circumstances in Texas and other states, it's an economic justice issue in that those with the financial capacity to take time off, travel in search of care and pay for it out of pocket are not affected the way those who cannot do so are.
35% :All of which is to say, abortion is an economic issue and a labor issue, as well as a human rights and healthcare issue, as the AFL-CIO and other labor unions have recognized.
34% : So it's been confounding to see some supposedly progressive men say that people should talk about economics instead of abortion, as if the loss of reproductive rights isn't a huge economic blow to anyone facing the possibility of an unwanted pregnancy.
31% : Another striking new note has been the insistence that we need to stop defining abortion as a stand-alone right and look at the criminalization of pregnancy and motherhood, especially for poor and nonwhite women.

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