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Can American Economy Survive the Abortion Bomb!!

Decades of declining birthrates are causing a rapid aging of many nation’s populations.

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

Decades of declining birthrates are causing a rapid aging of many nation’s populations.

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.”

Archdiocese Will Not Comply with Abortion Sanctuary Bill

Archbishop Robert Carlson

This proposed ordinance seeks to make St. Louis a sanctuary city for abortion, an act that kills innocent unborn children. Full Article

Board Bill 203 could also allow the City of St. Louis to fine landlords and others who do not want to rent to or be associated with the abortion industry. This proposed ordinance, therefore, would force the people of St. Louis to be complicit in the profound evil of abortion. This would be a flagrant violation of religious liberty and individual rights of conscience.

I urge the citizens of St. Louis to oppose Board Bill 203. Protection and care for human life at all stages of development from conception until natural death is a fundamental moral value shared by Catholics as well as many other people of faith. City ordinances should respect all people, including women facing unplanned pregnancies, unborn children, and people who desire to live their lives in accordance with their religious convictions.

let me be clear that the Archdiocese of St. Louis cannot and will not comply with any ordinance like Board Bill 203 that attempts to force the Church and others to become unwilling participants in the abortion business. There is no room for compromise on such a matter. This is a matter of fundamental religious and moral beliefs.

Rather than aiding and abetting the abortion industry, the archdiocese, through its various ministries and programs, will continue to extend both spiritual and material assistance to all those in need, especially the poor and those women facing crisis pregnancies who feel they have no one else to turn to for help—both during their pregnancies as well as after their child is born.

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