Can America survive the coming population death spiral? Twenty years ago, I ran full-page ads in the Washington Times National Weekly forecasting economic disaster ahead for America because of the economic and social impact of the abortion epidemic. Since then, a major economic malaise has set in while the abortion toll has risen from 38 million to 59 million. That’s 30% of our entire younger generation – Gen X, Y and Z all together. No other generation in history has suffered that kind of toll. It’s as if we had a nuclear war that wiped out the population of our 93 largest cities. Within three short years, that count will climb to include our 100 largest cities. Can America survive the abortion boom?
The economic impact is enormous. Our research indicates that the cost of abortion in terms of cumulative lost GDP has reached $50 trillion and will continue climbing even if all
Demographic researcher Dennis Howard predicted the long-term economic consequences of abortion in his 1997 book, The Abortion Bomb: America’s Demographic Disaster.
abortions stopped tomorrow. Italy’s shortage of babies shows that legalizing abortion was a disastrous move.
Italy’s population is declining. The latest statistics show the lowest recorded number of births per thousand since Italian unification, and the number dying each year is greater than the number being born. Could this be some sort of tipping point? The Minister thinks so, saying that Italy is now a “dying country”.
This article should not be taken as yet another example of a Catholic bemoaning abortion. I certainly disapprove, and strongly too, of abortion in all circumstances, as the Church teaches; but the question the Italian Minister of Health raises here has a wider application. If one were to set aside the morality of abortion for a moment, one could still see, whatever one’s views on abortion, that the practice makes very bad sense. When abortion was legalized, people could perhaps have claimed that the results would be at least not socially harmful. But now that we can see the results, now we see the long term effect of legalized abortion, what possible excuse can there be for not recognizing it as the disaster it is? Abortion is Destroying the World: Fewer Births, Older Population Fuel Global Economic Crisis
Fertility decline and demographic aging are major factors in the languishing global economy, say experts whose findings were reported in a week of front-page stories in The Wall Street Journal.
“Experts have struggled to understand why the global economy still languishes years after the 2008 global economic crisis,” said Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D., of C-Fam. “They are now willing to say that demographic decline is a major cause.”