Fact-check: “Chelsea Clinton Claims Aborting 60 Million Babies Since Roe "Added $3.5 Trillion to Our Economy"”
Verdict: False (85% confidence)
The $3.5 trillion figure originates from analyses of women's increased labor-force participation from 1970–2009, not from abortions themselves — and even that underlying figure is contested, with Obama White House economic reports citing $2.0 trillion, not $3.5 trillion. No government agency, academic study, or official economic analysis attributes a $3.5 trillion GDP gain specifically to abortions since Roe. The claim conflates a disputed labor-market statistic with a direct causal claim about…
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