Ping list for the discussion of the politics and social (and sometimes nostalgic) aspects that directly effect Gen-Reagan/Generation-X (Those born from 1965-1981) including all the spending previous generations (i.e. The Baby Boomers) are doing that Gen-X and Y will end up paying for.
Freep mail me to be added or dropped. See my home page for details and previous articles.
Most of whom would have voted for Gore or Kerry....
BTTT - to read later.
I think the person who was ordained to cure some of our illnesses of today, cancer, diabetes, etc... may have been aborted and therefore, it is possible no cure will be found.
Strictly speaking, I don't think we can look at the total number of children lost as a total change to the American population, because many women who had abortions when they were young went on to have children later in life that they might not have had (using the pill) if they'd started a family sooner.
Might have been another Einstein in there...or someone that would have found the cure for cancer...or any number of things. But the numbers are elevated. Some of the women that aborted once have multiple abortions. If they had the first child, the probablility of getting pregnant again decline. You tend to get "more responsible" etc. My wife and I used to joke that our son was the best birth control in the world. Not only for ourselves, but for the neighbors in our apartment complex we used to live in. He would start crying (colic) at about 0200 when all the single folk were getting back from the bars or whatever.
Just imagine if all the babies, throughout history that were aborted, had lived...or for that matter, all the people that died in any way other than from natural causes, or accidents??!!
At a neighborhood party a couple of months ago, an elderly lib was lamenting about how she wasn't sure if she would be able to retire because social security was in such a financial mess. My response was that if bigger families were promoted, all the babies born would be able to support the System in 20 years. She said she hadn't thought of that. When I said I believe part of the social security mess is because of the prevalence of abortion as a form of birth control, she was so shocked she couldn't speak.
What really disgusts me is when people, especially "conservatives," lament abortion because "those babies could've paid for our social security".
What a truly sick attitude to take. We shouldn't oppose abortion for such socialist and selfish reasons. We should oppose abortion because it's wrong. Period.
I wonder what his "cost efficiency" calculations showed for the elderly.
> imagine 50 million more wage earners paying Social Security
Well, that's a shudderful thought, regardless of the source.
ProLife Ping!
If anyone wants on or off my ProLife Ping List, please notify me here or by freepmail.
The Democratic party is being punished by God today for its stance in favor of abortion in the 1970's. In a nutshell, abortion cost the Democrats the presidency in 2000 and 2004.
How, do you ask?
Democrats tend to have abortions at a higher rate than Republicans.
Children tend to grow up to have political beliefs similar to those of their parents.
Abortion was made legal nationwide by Roe vs. Wade in the mid 1970's.
Individuals born in the mid 1970's would be eligible voters in the 2000 and 2004 elections.
The 2000 and 2004 elections were both extremely close - so close that a couple million aborted would-be-Democrats could easily have tipped the scales.
Like I said, the Democratic party is being punished by God for its stance on abortion.