Lauren Boebert Says She Didn’t Take Birth Control Because It’s ‘Cheaper to Have a Kid’
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez quickly responded: "Then she voted against the right to contraception so she could double this problem and give it to the next person."
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Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), a 36-year-old grandmother who just filed for divorce from her sex pest husband, said at a House Oversight Committee hearing on prescription drug markets Tuesday that she left a pack of birth control pills at a pharmacy once because it cost too much, and she figured that raising an actual child for 18 years would be cheaper.
“I left a prescription at a pharmacy once. I went to get birth control,” she said. “The price was very, very high… And I said, ‘It’s cheaper to have a kid.’ And I left it there, and now I have my third son.” The cost of raising a child in the U.S. averages out to over $300k over 18 years, according to a Brookings Institution analysis. Birth control pills range from $0 to $50 a month. That’s not cheaper than a kid.