Posted on 08/01/2014 7:57:46 AM PDT by wagglebee
The pro-life movement often talks of the science behind life in the womb, the fact that abortion leaves emotional, psychological and physical scars on women and the inherent beauty of every life. What we don’t often talk about, though, is money.
After all, doesn’t it seem somewhat crass to couch pro-life arguments in terms of economic benefit? The reality, though, is that abortion hasn’t impacted our society only in emotional, social, and cultural ways. It’s also impacted our society economically. And one political scientist is now claiming this very thing.
Mark A. Olson, a former liberal community organizer turned pro-life consultant, has published research that abortion in America has cost our nation more than $16 trillion in federal revenue – or approximately the amount of our current national debt.
In a slide presentation summarizing his research, he first notes that the figure of 50 million abortions far under-represents the cumulative population loss due to abortion, which he places at a staggering 126,469,904 as of January 1, 2014.
Based on this number, Olson applies the per capita individual tax burden to the lost population number for each year, a method which he says controls for other demographic variables. His finding: as of January 1, 2014, $15,734,000,000,000 in federal revenue has been lost due to abortion.
A press release issued today by Olson stated, “Basic macroeconomics says that any such loss in population will result in a collapse of the necessary aggregate supply and demand to sustain long term national economic growth. The population loss due to abortion would have the same negative economic impact as any population loss due to war, epidemic, or natural disaster. “
Olson concludes that the fiscal problems our nation is facing can be solved neither by conservative nor liberal policies – but only through ending abortion on demand.
The reality is that abortion doesn’t ‘only’ kill children. It doesn’t only devastate women. It doesn’t only shock and grieve men. It doesn’t only deaden national conscience and deprave our collective culture. It does all of these, and more.
Certainly, life is sacred apart from economics – and it always will be. And truth be told, waving signs that read “Save a life, save the economy” probably won’t change many minds and hearts.
At the same time, evaluating the impact of abortion without evaluating the resulting economic losses is an incomplete study. Tragically, we know that not even one dollar of that lost $15 trillion is enough to bring back one of the precious lives lost through abortion.
But one thing we can do is make sure that not one more dollar funds the taking of innocent lives – and not one more dollar propagates the lie that abortion does no harm.
So...you consider KILLING the children of liberal women to be a lesser evil than letting them live.
Do you realize what this makes YOU?
wow
What would the world be like if Hitler’s mother had aborted him? Most of the mothers having abortions are monsters and their children probably would be monsters as well. Look at the murder and mayhem in the inner cities. More abortions by liberal monsters would result in less death and destruction.
You are over-simplifying an incredibly complex issue. Many of the babies you want to save will grow up to be communists and cold-blooded killers. I am not so arrogant that I pretend to know what is or is not God’s will. I can only try and live my life by what I believe will please him and have faith that much of what I do not understand is by his will.
I suggest you do the same. You are casting stones...
You need to qualify that by describing what you mean by the highest standard of living.
The natural tendency in this type of system is towards Keynesian economics fueled by consumer spending, debt financing and smoke & mirrors. Jobs aren't even necessary to keep the house of cards standing. Even with a very low labor participation rate, our capacity to produce far exceeds our ability to even consume what we produce.
Wages have been declining in real terms since 1969. I would say that our living standard is declining. And we have mortgaged our future stealing from future generations to maintain what we have. The chickens will come home to roost. In fact, they have started coming home now. Our entitlement programs are bankrupting us. Our national debt continues to increase as far as the eye can see and our debt servicing costs will eventually smother us. The only reason we have stayed afloat is because the USD is the world's currency. The Fed can print money to buy our T-bills. They have spent about $4 trillion.
Economic growth is fueled by: (1) population growth, and (2) productivity growth. For several decades we've been past the point where human productivity growth even matters anymore ... productivity growth is now almost entirely driven by automation and advances in technology and communications.
Population growth can sap an economy and a nation trying to keep up with the infrastructure needs. Immigration drives 80% of our population growth and immigrants use the welfare system to a greater extent than the native born. In 1970 one in 21 was foreign born in this country; today it is one in 8, the highest in 90 years; and within a decade it will be one in 7, the highest in our history.
There's no doubt that the house of cards will eventually come crashing down, but that's not going to be driven by immigration (legal or otherwise).
Of course it is. You can't bring in a huge number of immigrants, many of whom are poor and uneducated without affecting the economy, the social fabric of the country, and electoral politics.
Some factoids on the impact of immigrants in the US:
• In 2010, 23 percent of immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under 18) lived in poverty, compared to 13.5 percent of natives and their children. Immigrants and their children accounted for one-fourth of all persons in poverty. The children of immigrants account for one-third of all children in poverty.
• In 2010, 36 percent of immigrant-headed households used at least one major welfare program (primarily food assistance and Medicaid) compared to 23 percent of native households.
• In 2010, 29 percent of immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under 18) lacked health insurance, compared to 13.8 percent of natives and their children.
• New immigrants and their U.S.-born children account for two-thirds of the increase in the uninsured since 2000.
• There are 10.4 million students from immigrant households in public schools, accounting for one in five public school students. Of these students, 78 percent speak a language other than English at home.
• Overall, one in four public school students now speaks a language other than English at home.
• Of adult immigrants (25 to 65), 28 percent have not completed high school, compared to 7 percent of natives.
• The large share of immigrants with relatively little education is one of the primary reasons for their lower socioeconomic status, not their legal status or unwillingness to work.
• At the same time immigration added significantly to the number of less-educated workers, the share of young, less-educated natives holding a job declined significantly. The decline began well before the current economic downturn.
• The poverty rate of adult immigrants who have lived in the United States for 20 years is 50 percent higher than that of adult natives.
The UK just realized the problems associated with mass immigration.
The 85-page report that as a result gross domestic product would grow as a whole but GDP per capita would be only marginally affected by projected population growth forecast for the coming century.
Mr Rowthorn, Emeritus Professor of Economics at Cambridge University, said: “Unrestrained population growth would eventually have a negative impact on the standard of living through its environmental effects such as overcrowding, congestion and loss of amenity.
A great presentation: Canada's broken immigration & refugee system This could just as easily describe what is happening in the US.
Immigration, legal and illegal, has had and will continue to have a major and far-reaching impact across a broad spectrum of existential challenges that confront this nation, e.g., national security, the economy/global competitiveness, jobs, health care, taxes, energy independence, education, entitlement reform, law enforcement, social welfare programs, physical infrastructure, the environment, civil liberties, and a continued sense of national identity/shared sense of endeavor. Immigration is the defining issue of our time with enormous implications for the future of this nation and the preservation of our patrimony. Yet, seldom will you hear immigration mentioned by our political and intellectual elites in connection with solutions to these challenges.
Legal immigration is a controllable variable that can be adjusted in the national interest if we have the political will to do so. And illegal immigration can be stopped and reversed if we as a nation make a resolute commitment to secure our borders and enforce our existing laws. Every time a discussion is held on a major issue, we must ensure that the impact of immigration is part of the dialogue.
It would have meant that England and the United States would have had to fight a much stronger Stalin. We can play "what if" all day long, but it doesn't change anything, it's like saying, "What if Abraham Lincoln's mother had aborted him, would we still have slavery?"
Most of the mothers having abortions are monsters and their children probably would be monsters as well. Look at the murder and mayhem in the inner cities. More abortions by liberal monsters would result in less death and destruction.
Odd, in one sentence you wonder about a world without Hitler, in the next you sound just like him.
You are over-simplifying an incredibly complex issue.
No, it's an incredibly simple issue: MURDER IS WRONG.
Many of the babies you want to save will grow up to be communists and cold-blooded killers.
And many more won't.
I am not so arrogant that I pretend to know what is or is not God’s will.
Sounds A LOT like, "It's above my paygrade."
I can only try and live my life by what I believe will please him and have faith that much of what I do not understand is by his will.
So, you think killing inner city and liberal babies is God's will? Where did you learn that?
bite me
Thanks Jim!
Good.
It was romanticism, the divorce/cohabitation regime and aid to foreign mercantilists: in sum, moral bankruptcy. And the difficulties may continue, until the causes cease and desist. Have fun. Enjoy the slide.
We like throwing lightening at people like you and looks like you caught the streak.
Or very bad things will happen?
I don't know, but you seem like someone who hasn't been paying attention. But that's just me.
Even unintentional irony is still ironic.
Oh, good grief.
Wake up, jokker! The president of the United States is breaking the entire country apart in a concerted effort to destroy America, the light of the World.
Bad things are happening, indeed.
Yes. I’m not at all sure that he has any butt left, so no butt hurt.
But thanks anyway, Sir.
http://www.blackgenocide.org/black.html
Minority women constitute only about 13% of the female population (age 15-44) in the United States, but they underwent approximately 36% of the abortions.
According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, black women are more than 5 times as likely as white women to have an abortion
On average, 1,876 black babies are aborted every day in the United States.
This incidence of abortion has resulted in a tremendous loss of life. It has been estimated that since 1973 Black women have had about 16 million abortions. Michael Novak had calculated “Since the number of current living Blacks (in the U.S.) is 36 million, the missing 16 million represents an enormous loss, for without abortion, America’s Black community would now number 52 million persons. It would be 36 percent larger than it is. Abortion has swept through the Black community like a scythe, cutting down every fourth member.”
A highly significant 1993 Howard University study showed that African American women over age 50 were 4.7 times more likely to get breast cancer if they had had any abortions compared to women who had not had any abortions.
This begs the question whether Liberal white women and Black women would be a lot more careful about getting pregnant in the first place if abortion wasn’t such a ready option. I read about an inner city Planned Parenthood clinic that closed, and the pregnancy rate went DOWN.
You can add Gen-X to that list.
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