Birthrate Is Lowest in a Century

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/28/us/28birth.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss ^

[A_Former_Democrat]

The good people are the reluctant ones. The illegals and welfare staters keep droppin em like flies

[GWMcClintock]

Has someone informed the Duggars? They’re gonna have to pick up the slack! /s

[ntmxx]

And now a word from the sponsors of Illegal Aliens and immigration…and now returning to the show;

Abortion, Proxy to Infanticide!

[Oldpuppymax]

Birthrate among which race?? Does this also apply to illegals??

[Gay State Conservative]

Let's have a breakdown of these figures by race,ethnicity,socio-economic status,immigration status and according to those who receive government checks (welfare,disability,etc,etc) and those who don't.

[sten]

this is a victory for the left. exceedingly low birthrates crush a country and remove its ability to replace itself.

this, of course, was one of the reasons they pushed abortion. 54m killed since roe v wade.

more Americans killed than ever killed or wounded in all of our wars combined. (who are the baby killers again?)

[PGR88]

But we’re going to need those people to pay all the bills we’re running up!

Yeah! Who is going to pay for my Social Security? And I don't want any Obama-money either!

[catnipman]

Yet another reaction to the uncertainty of Marxists running the economy. Goes right along with the freeze-up in loans, with both borrowers and lenders deciding against more loans, businesses hoarding cash and deciding against growth and risk taking, people withdrawing their money from the economy, people going to barter and cash transactions, people taking their vacation days rather than being paid for them and paying high marginal tax rates on the resulting increased pay, etc.

I’ve finally realized we’re witnessing people “Going Galt”, but it’s a virtual form, rather than the physical movement depicted in “Atlas Shrugged”.

[ntmxx]

“…female babies…”

I am not sure if it’s more or less, yet we do know, several things. The further we go on this the less males there are proportionally, society has become effeminate, socialism/communism the political standard, and ethnic/societal bias is promoted by the political class to eliminate constitutional barriers of unalienable Rights, life, liberty and pursuit of happiness…

Now, think about this, if there are only about 100M men in America which could be part of the armed forces. How does that compare to the Chinese being able to throw an extra 100+ million men into a war (they’ll eventually need to do something with all those men). That, combined with the political class and a 5th column within the U.S. which has no interest to up hold the constitution; leaves the remaining female population vulnerable…just look around the world for the empirical facts and do the math.

[Gaffer]

Obviously they are not tracking the illegal alien babies. That would present an even worse picture. Millions of aborted legal babies versus millions of highly-prized anchor babies.

[Clemenza]

With the Mexican birthrate falling rapidly (1.5 children per woman now, compared to nearly 6 per woman in the early 1960s), methinks that the future will see us importing West Africans again to do the work that we supposedly don't want to do.

I hate to say this (and the Catholics don't like hearing this), but we would be much better off if certain people didn't have children, and if their respective Sky Pilots didn't encourage them to do so per the Bible.

[Clemenza]

Many, if not most, of those being aborted are, FWIW, from the native born underclass anyway. Its a reason why the crime rate has declined considerably since the 1970s and early 1980s.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

I just wonder if anyone has, or even has the ability to figure out the number of female babies who have been killed through abortion...

Just a shot in the dark here but the total (both sexes) is close to fifty million. The gender distribution in the general population slightly favors females, therefore 25,500,00 would not be too far off.

The census tabulates live population statistics by gender, race, income, &c. I would suggest that applying those distribution percentages to the 50,000,000 total would yield a fairly close estimate. With the exception of race, there seems to be a disproportionate number of black babies aborted, comparatively speaking.

The Negro Project: Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Plan for Black Americans

Just a thought here, it isn't "Whitey" that's "out to get them", they're doing it to themselves.

One last point, declining native population is not just an American phenomenon. Nearly all European countries are below a self sustaining birth rate and only show increasing population because of a tidal wave of immigration (largely Middle Easterners)

Regards,
GtG

PS Reminds me of the old "Chinese curse":
May you live in interesting times...

[DocH]

With the amount of, what appear to be, illegal alien hispanic women with buns-in-the-oven, and pushing single or double baby carriages that I see here near Atlanta, I can say it sure looks like these law-breaking foreigners aren’t slowing popping ‘em out to partake in all the goodies our law-ignoring government is handing out to them - at OUR expense.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

25,500,00 = 25,000,000

Never can catch all the typos!

G

[I still care]

I live in FL and my friends are all part of a homeschooling group.

We have always had a lot of kids while regular Americans don’t. Almost all of them have at least three, and we have a lot of large families, ten or thirteen or more.

However, this depression is destroying people. So many people in the group have lost their homes, can’t pay for their school supplies and such.

I spoke to a good, godly woman the other day who has all her family living in one room. She works at publix, part time - can’t find anything else. Now you know, even if she wants more children, it just can’t happen.

[dragnet2]

Millions lost their jobs, careers, investments, homes, if currently working they've had their medical benefits slashed, eliminated, hours reduced, hours cut etc, etc....

Few can afford to pay their mortgages, let alone have children in today's America.

The exception would be millions of illegals aliens, which American tax payers are forced to pay for their medical and health care.

You can see them pushing strollers all over our towns and cities.

[Paperdoll]

Forty years ago I would have blamed the low birthrate on Barbie as she took the place of Dydee Dolls, and displaced our daughter’s natural maternal instincts. But today I cannot blame Barbie. However, I can blame the forces behind the move attempting to remove God from the dictionary, and freedom from the American people. By the looks of what kind of future we face today, I would hesitate to bring precious life into being either!

[Mrs. Don-o]

It is not at all evident that, as Levitt (Freakonomics) hypothesizes, abortion lowers the crime rate. Steve Sailer, one of the theory’s knowledgeable opponents, shows here (Link) how the statistics don't hold up: go on and look, if you want to crunch the numbers yourself.

More recently, John Lott Jr. and John Whitley (American Enterprise Institute) found that not only did abortion not decrease crime rates, but it actually increased murder rates by 7 percent in the U.S., pointing to "a strong consistent positive relationship between abortion and murder."

Mind you, this is correlation, not necessarily causation: they found that when abortion increases, murder increases as well: the legalization of abortion is linked to about 700 more murders per year by 1998—a 7.2 percent increase.

Is there a plausible causation pathway? They argue that there is. It's basically because Levitt didn't notice that the availability of abortion actually increases out-of-wedlock births like so:

• without the availability of abortion, women are far more likely to restrict sexual interourse to men to whom they are married, engaged to marry, or feel very likely to marry.
• Likewise, without abortion being available, men are far more likely to marry a woman they've gotten pregnant, or to remain married to pregnant wife or one who has had his child.
• Knowing that abortion is available, women are far more likely to "take a chance."
• At the same time, the availability of abortion makes men far more likely to absolve themselves of a sense of co-responsibility: such men will say, "Well, that's her problem: she could have gotten an abortion."
• Whatever the "he said/she said" interaction, the brute fact remains that making abortion legal and available does, in fact, measurably, predictably, increase out-of-wedlock births.
• And finally, out-of-wedlock children are more likely to go on to eventually commit felonies.

So rising abortion rates actually correlate, down the line, with rising murder rates. Counter-intuitive? Maybe. But you can look into the actual research findings Here.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"I hate to say this (and the Catholics don't like hearing this), but we would be much better off if certain people didn't have children, and if their respective Sky Pilots didn't encourage them to do so per the Bible."

I'm sorry, I don't quite get your point here. (It may be because my brain is movin' kinda slow due to the synapse-clogging effects of a bowl of ice cream I just recklessly consumed?) You are saying that we'd be better off if 'certain people' didn't have children, and wondering who these 'certain people' are, I see it's apparently people who are Bible believers?

It's Biblically motivated people, specifically, who ought not to have children?

If I am not construing this correctly, please set me straight.