Unwanted babies:  As if it weren’t cruel enough for an unwanted baby to be forced into the world, several Republican-led states have rolled back their child labor laws to “let them” go to work at fourteen.

Freshman girls can now serve alcohol in Wisconsin. In Ohio, fourteen year-olds can now work until 9 p.m. on school nights [homework, anyone?], and in Iowa, a child can now work in slaughterhouses. [Is this one of those who will one day discover a cure for cancer?]

Conservatives try to justify child labor by claiming minors are needed to fill a worker shortage [instead of raising the pay?].

“A century ago, this country passed child labor laws to prevent the exploitation of teens in slaughterhouses and mines. Apparently they “think that was a mistake.”

LZ Granderson in Los Angeles Times, via The Week 6/16/23