Abrams: ‘Having a Child is Absolutely an Economic Issue’

Abrams: But let’s be clear. Having children is why you’re worried about your price for gas, it’s why you’re concerned about how much food costs. For women, this is not a reductive issue. You can’t divorce being forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy from the economic realities of having a child. And so these are — it’s important for us to have both-and conversations. We don’t have the luxury of reducing it or separating them out.

We also have to talk about what a governor can do. A governor can address housing prices. A governor can address the cost of education. A governor can put money into the pockets of everyday hard-working Georgians instead of giving tax cuts to the wealthy. That’s what I talk about on the trail and that’s what’s resonating.

But let’s not pretend that women, half the population, especially those of childbearing age, they understand that having a child is absolutely an economic issue. The only politicians who see it as simply another cultural conversation. It is a real, biological and economic-imperative conversation that women need to have.