Pro-Life Wisdom from an ally

PRO-CHOICE ARGUMENT: Part II
"Abortion helps solve the problem of overpopulation and raises the quality of life.

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PRO-LIFE ANSWER:
The dramatic decline in our birth rate will have a disturbing economic effect on America.



A reducing population is a serious threat to social and economic prosperity. Most Western European countries are now experiencing economic problems that their governments attribute to population reduction. France offers child-bearing incentives that include monthly financial payments to families with more than a certain number of children. Why would a government pay its people to have children? Because it recognizes any society needs a continuous influx of the young in order to remain healthy.



The problem of a shrinking population propagates itself. Because today's women have fewer children, there will be fewer parents tomorrow, resulting in still fewer children. Fewer and fewer people having fewer and fewer children adds up to a dying society.



The legalization of abortion resulted in a drastic reduction of the number of children in this country. By 1980 there were 6.5 million fewer school-age children in America than just a decade earlier. This required the closing of nine thousand elementary schools.



Legalized abortion has resulted in over 30 million fewer tax payers in America to support the elderly. "Population loss from abortion on demand is already responsible for past and future economic, employment and tax revenue losses and is eroding the solvency of Social Security." The imbalance of older and younger is shaping into a chronological civil war. By 2025 there will be twice as many grandparents as young children. Some experts predict Social Security taxes will rise from 25 to 40% of total income. In 1980 there were over four people of wage-earning age for each retired person, while in 2020 there will be only two. By 2040 there will be one and a half.