Women 'understand that having a child is absolutely an economic issue,' Abrams, the Democratic nominee for governor in Georgia, said.
which stripped away constitutional protections for abortion, is another major issue in the midterm election.
Above, Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams speaks at a campaign event as early voting begins on October 18, 2022, in Jonesboro, Georgia. Abrams said in a recent interview that abortion rights are an economic issue.Many young people, he said,"had never gone through the experience of seeing us go backward on a big issue. And it's a reminder that democracy is fragile. That you have to tend to it, you have to fight for it.
"[Abortion has] been reduced to this idea of a culture war," Abrams said."But for women in Georgia, this is very much a question of whether they're going to end up in poverty in the next five years because women who are forced to carry unwanted pregnancies. "They're four times more likely to be impoverished within five years. They're twice as likely to be on food stamps. This is an economic issue and it's being reduced to this culture conversation."abortion is an issue
, it nowhere reaches the level of interest of voters in terms of the cost of gas, food, bread, milk...what could you do as governor to alleviate the concerns of Georgia voters about those livability, daily, hourly issues that they're confronted with?" MSNBC contributor Mike Barnicle asked.
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