{"id":1704121,"date":"2022-10-20T13:05:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T17:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704121"},"modified":"2022-10-20T13:05:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T17:05:43","slug":"stacey-abrams-claims-abortion-restrictions-are-behind-inflation-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stacey-abrams-claims-abortion-restrictions-are-behind-inflation-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacey Abrams Claims Abortion Restrictions Are Behind Inflation Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstacey-abrams-claims-abortion-restrictions-are-behind-inflation-concerns%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704121&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">&#8216;Having children is why you&#8217;re worried about your price for gas,&#8217; Georgia Dem said<\/p>\n<p>    Stacey Abrams \/ Getty Images   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/anna-allen\/\" title=\"Posts by Anna Allen\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Anna Allen<\/a> \u2022 October 19, 2022 2:50 pm  <\/p>\n<p>Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uzpBpu_PUJM?t=236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed<\/a> in a Wednesday interview with MSNBC that abortion restrictions are at the root of voters&#8217; concerns about inflation.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams&#8217;s comment came after MSNBC&#8217;s Mike Barnicle asked how she would alleviate Georgia voters&#8217; concerns about inflation, noting that abortion &#8220;nowhere reaches the level of interest of voters&#8221; as the increased cost of living.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s be clear. Having children is why you&#8217;re worried about your price for gas. It&#8217;s why you\u2019re concerned about how much food costs,&#8221; Abrams responded. &#8220;For women, this is not a reductive issue. You can&#8217;t divorce being forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy from the economic realities of having a child.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to a poll by the <em>Atlanta Journal Constitution<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.governing.com\/finance\/rising-prices-jobs-economy-top-issues-for-georgia-voters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">69 percent<\/a> of Georgia likely voters ranked cost of living and the economy as the most important issues in this year&#8217;s election.\u00a0With the U.S. economy struggling under the Biden administration, Abrams is among many Democratic candidates trying to divert voters&#8217; attention from inflation to abortion, hoping the overturning of <em>Roe\u00a0<\/em>v. <em>Wade<\/em>\u00a0will energize their voter base. Voters in Wisconsin this week\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/wisconsin-voters-press-barnes-about-singular-focus-on-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chided<\/a>\u00a0Democratic Senate candidate Mandela Barnes for his singular focus on abortion and not talking enough\u00a0about the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout her campaign,\u00a0Abrams has attacked Georgia&#8217;s recently passed heartbeat bill, which bans abortions once a heartbeat is detected, usually around six weeks.\u00a0Last month, she <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/planned-parenthood-changes-website-to-match-stacey-abramss-heartbeat-comments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">falsely claimed<\/a> that a heartbeat heard at six weeks is &#8220;a manufactured sound designed to convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman&#8217;s body.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Abrams is trailing Republican governor Brian Kemp by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/governor\/ga\/georgia_governor_kemp_vs_abrams-7538.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5.6 points<\/a>, according to <em>RealClearPolitics<\/em>\u2018s most recent report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams claimed in a Wednesday interview with MSNBC that abortion restrictions are at the root of voters&#8217; concerns about inflation.<br \/>\nThe post Stacey Abrams Claims Abortion Restrictions Are Behind Inflation Concerns appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1262,"featured_media":658918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}