You can’t have it both ways. You cannot in one breath say that abortions are the cause of illegal immigration and criticize a woman’s decision to have a child outside of marriage especially if both decisions are based in “American uteruses”. You can’t pick and choose your female reproductive organs.

Latina Congresswoman Linda Sanchez is receiving criticism for her decision to have a child for the simple reason that she is not legally married.

Twenty years ago, it simply wouldn’t have been possible — pregnant, single and a member of Congress? Oh, the scandal! But Hester Prynne has morphed into Juno MacGuff . . . and “unwed mother” has been recast as “single mom.”

Who do we have to thank for that? Thousands, from Madonna to Dan Quayle. In 1992, Quayle waged moral warfare on the sitcom character “Murphy Brown” — famous, rich, single and pregnant. . . . And, of course, Bristol Palin.

Except we have a problem. How many women in the above list of famous unmarried moms are Latinas or even women of color? None. And there’s a reason for that. Single women of color who have children are stereotypes, no matter how successful they are or if they have a job in government or how good mothers they are or will be.

Bringing back a story from two years ago, it seems that the value of a uterus is linked to if your pussy has papers (couldn’t help to use alliteration).

National Right to Life estimates that there have been more than 47 million abortions since the Supreme Court established a woman’s right to an abortion in its 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. The immigration report estimates that there are 80,000 fewer Missourians because of abortion, many of whom now would have been in a “highly productive age group for workers.”

The statement connecting abortion to illegal immigration was listed under the report’s recommendations on federal social policies and potential state legislative action on illegal hiring.

“Suggestions for how to stop illegal hiring varied without any simple solution,” the report states. “The lack of traditional work ethic, combined with the effects of 30 years of abortion and expanding liberal social welfare policies have produced a shortage of workers and a lack of incentive for those who can work.”

None of those abortions belonged to Latina single mothers or undocumented women? Or are those ok because this is really about the right/white kind of workers? What statement is being made of who is the “American worker” or the potential American worker. Do unwed Latina women who birth citizens on this side of the U.S. border help create a new American workforce or is the real deal that our babies are on a whole different career track?

Via / Feministe