Rep. Katie Porter was sick at home with COVID, but she still had a message for her colleagues: Americans should be free to decide for themselves if and when to have children. Politicians shouldn't get to force them.

With her whiteboard, Rep. Porter showed how government-mandated pregnancies can damage Americans' futures. Women denied abortion are 4x more likely to live in poverty. They're more likely to be in poor health, more likely to be unemployed, and more likely to have bad credit.