MSNBC Guest Says W.H.’s Push for Women to Have More Children Is ‘Rooted in Exploitation,’ Wanting Children to Work ‘40-Hour Work Weeks in Second and Third Shift’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
Criminalization of motherhood. Michelle. Good morning. So good to have you. I get to talk to a lawyer today, and when I do, I take my glasses off and talk straight. Let’s just talk about the legal aspect of this. Can the government actually reserve public benefits or academic opportunities like fulbright scholarships just for married parents?
>> Well, we have a. real question of what.
>> That means for equal opportunity for.
>> All people.
>> Coming under.
>> The 14th Amendment.
>> Look.
>> It’s not unusual that governments would create an incentive for people to raise families. That’s not unusual nationally. But what’s really going on here.
>> Is what.
>> You’ve pointed out, which is that here are these policies that I think are meant to do two things. One predates the civil war. This idea of replacement theory, a need for certain people to have more children. This fear of the browning and blackening of the United States. But then there’s a part two that comes a century ago, when child. Labor had no protections whatsoever, and children.
>> Were working.
>> 40.
>> 50, 60 hour weeks.
>> And exactly.
>> What you touched upon.
>> Is what’s being proposed in.
>> Some states. And these are the same states that have abortion bans where they want children to be driving.
>> At 13.
>> And 14 years old to go to labor day jobs where they would. Be working.
>> Over 40.
>> Hours a week. I mean, there are proposals right now to do away with child labor protections in various states and.
>> To allow.
>> For children to work.
>> 40 hour.
>> Work weeks.
>> In second and third shift.
>> You cannot make that up. And of course, that.
>> Does not. Speak to protecting children. To making sure that women have paid parental leave,