AOC: Abortion restrictions are a form of wage slavery

The odd comparison during a Congressional hearing of giving birth and forced labor came in response to a Republican lawmaker who said Democrats need to focus on America’s troubled economy instead of promoting abortion.

“Abortion is an economic issue,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

“Forcing poor and working-class people to give birth against their will, against their consent, against their ability to provide for themselves or a child, is a profound economic issue and it’s certainly a way to keep a workforce basically conscripted to large-scale employers and to employers to work more against their will, to take second and third jobs against their desire and their own autonomy,” she said.