Abortion Toll Will Pass 47 Million in 2005
Unless something happens to change the hearts and minds of more Americans about abortion, the nation's abortion toll will pass 47 million during 2005, Movement for a Better America researcher reports.
MT FREEDOM, NJ (PRWEB) February 5, 2005 -- Unless something happens to change
the hearts and minds of more Americans about abortion, the nation’s abortion
toll will pass 47 million during 2005 and may well exceed 51 million before
President George W. Bush leaves office at the end of 2008.
This forecast
was made here by Dennis M. Howard, president of the Movement for a Better
America, who has been tracking the annual abortion toll since 1992. Howard, who
is a former investigative reporter, magazine editor, and market research
consultant, compares the cumulative abortion toll to the loss of life that would
have occurred if a major disaster like a nuclear war had struck the nation’s 53
largest cities.
In 1992, when Howard first began tracking the number of
abortions since abortion first became legal, the toll had already reached
30,550,000 – equivalent to the population of our 19 largest cities from New York
all the way down to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Since then, the toll has
climbed to an estimated 46,358,000 by the end of 2004, raising the count of
comparable cities to 53 cities by the end of 2004. The cities range from New
York, Los Angeles, and Chicago at the top all the way down to cities the size of
Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Anaheim, California. Currently, 4 new cities are
being added to the list each year.
“Although people rarely look at it
this way, the human loss from abortion is the same as if all of our major
metropolitan centers had been nuked,” said Howard. “A nuclear war would be a
dramatic, cataclysmic event, while abortions take place one at a time in the
sanitized privacy of a medical clinic, but the long range impact on America’s
human resources is no different.”
He added: “It amazes me that a country
that would go to war with Iraq because Saddam Hussein killed 1.3 million Iraqis
over the last 20 years would be so complacent about the huge abortion toll in
our country that kills more than 1.3 million U.S. babies every
year.”
“Nothing has inflicted more permanent damage on our society than
abortion,” he said. “And that includes all the wars in our history, the ravages
of the war on terrorism, and yes, even the tragedy of 9/11. Every day since then
has been another 9/11 in the nation’s abortion clinics, adding 3,700 babies a
day to the awful toll – or 4,590,000 unborn babies just since 9/11.”
“It
is time we faced the social, economic and spiritual impact of nearly 47 million
missing unborn Americans – 30 per cent of our entire younger generation under
35.” He added, “It’s a toll unlike anything the world has seen since the Black
Plague.”
Among the more obvious consequences, he listed the
following:
1. The Social Security crisis. “If just half of the babies we
aborted were working today, that would add $1 trillion a year to our economy,
including more than $580 billion in additional wages. It would mean an
additional $88 billion a year flowing into the Social Security trust fund. The
only reason the old ‘pay as you go’ system stopped working is that we began
aborting 30% of our future workers, consumers, and taxpayers following Roe v.
Wade.”
2. A looming manpower shortage in critical fields like nursing,
teaching, and the armed forces. “We face a critical shortage of 1 million nurses
and 2 million teachers, as well as a 30% drop in the manpower pool available to
serve the nation’s defense needs in a time of crisis,” said Howard. “If abortion
continues, where in the world will we find them?”
3. The same vacuum is
also driving legal and illegal immigration, he added. “Our labor shortages
translate directly into demand for more foreign workers, a fact that critics of
lax immigration policies often overlook. Easy access to abortion is one major
cause.”
4. Abortion and more efficient contraception have had a similar
impact on religious vocations, he said. “With smaller and smaller families,
fewer parents are willing to give up a son or daughter to the priesthood, the
ministry or the religious life. It’s a phenomenon that will only be resolved
when couples begin having larger families again.”
Howard argues that
abortion has backfired on the liberal media and liberal politicians who
supported it. “The 30% bite that abortion took out of the ‘youth market’ helps
explain the drop in daily newspaper circulation over the last 3 decades and the
decline in the size of the youth audience that networks sell to advertisers.
Abortion is killing the goose that once laid all those golden eggs called
ratings, readership and the youth market.”
“As for politics,” he
continued, “the ‘red states’ have significantly lower abortion rates on average
than the ‘blue states.’ Pro-choice politicians can’t win in ‘red’ states where
abortion rates are low. Until they soften their views, they will keep
losing.”
He added: “I recently returned from San Francisco where my wife
and I visited our newest grand child. As I looked into her eyes and delighted in
her laughter, I could not help but marvel at this wonder of God’s creation.
Multiply this one baby by 47 million, and you have some idea of what we have
lost to our nation’s future.”
The list of the top 53 cities with
populations equivalent to cumulative population losses from abortion can be
found on MBA’s website: www.movementforabetteramerica.org.
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/2/prweb205132.htm