Posted on 08/02/2002 9:24:10 PM PDT by JulieRNR21
Shrinking population threatens West's culture My View: reader commentary
By PATRICIA STEBBINS Do we really swallow everything we read in the paper without knowing anything of the other side of the issue?
A column in the Sunday Cape Cod Times urges us to "go Dutch" and follow Holland's lead in family planning. Writer Ans Zwerver rhapsodizes on how well her countrypeople in the Netherlands have mastered birth control and abortion. I suspect those who read the article mindlessly thought "how wonderful of them" and then turned to the sports or entertainment pages.
This past year, the United Nations has twice sent out alarmed bulletins, warning that Europe, the United States, Canada and many other countries have so badly fallen behind in replacing their populations that they are at serious risk of extinction. That's right. We are now in the category of "endangered species" along with the spotted owl and right whale.
Japan has recently, also with alarm, told the nation that they are starting to run out of people and "women need to work less and have more children to save their culture."
In his new book, "The Death of the West," author Patrick Buchanan predicts that "by the year 2050, people of European descent will account for only 10 percent of the world population - and most of them will be very old." Please re-read that last sentence and think of your kids and grandkids.
Zwerver chides our president for refusing to fund the United Nations Family Planning Agency (UNFPA), preventing them from further carpeting the world with birth control pills and abortion kits. UNFPA has definitely been linked with helping to enforce China's one-child-per-family credo. The result has been that millions of baby girls have been aborted, abandoned or drowned because Chinese families prefer boys.
UNFPA has been instrumental in forcing abortion and birth control on nations whose constitutions have outlawed both.
Vultures that they are, UNFPA was right on the scene in Afghanistan with condoms and suction kits when the Taliban was defeated. No food or medical supplies, though. Apparently they don't read major bulletins from their parent organization.
And kudos to George Bush for standing firm against unbelievable pressure from the Rad-Fems to fund this $34 million "family planning" gift. (Think what our schools could do with this money!)
Also missing in the media are reports on respected, legitimate research proving abortions (particularly the first pregnancy) increase by 30 percent to 50 percent a woman's risk of developing breast cancer. They also risk hemorrhage, infection, sterility, bowel perforation and death.
For each year of using the pill, a woman's uterus ages two years, so that when she tries to become pregnant at age 30 or 40, her uterus is often too old to support a pregnancy. Never before in history have women had such difficulty in becoming pregnant.
Meanwhile, as Western populations dwindle, the birth rates in Arab/Muslim countries are booming as they fan out all over the world, spreading their culture and religion.
These new citizens are building countless mosques and demanding their social, cultural and religious beliefs be incorporated into (or replace) existing laws. It is even said that in Muslim religious schools they are teaching that Jews and Christians are scum and must be eliminated.
It wouldn't hurt to take a lesson from Japan and consider "working less and having more children" - if only to maintain a balance and protect our health; not to mention leaving a legacy that lasts for generations.
And I wonder if anyone has told Ms. Zwerver and UNFPA that condoms are ineffective in preventing HIV/AIDS because the virus is so small it can slip right through even the best of them?
Patricia Stebbins lives in East Sandwich.
Pardon me for perhaps being a bit obtuse, but I'm having trouble believing that Japan is anywhere near threatened by underpopulation. JMVHO.
Oh goodness me. Only an irreligious person could possibly think such a thing!
I'm not sure how a person could take such a view of human nature and still be a champion of Western civilization and a conservative.
Oh great, I get to see this in my lifetime. I'm only 18 years old now. Maybe I was just born at the wrong time, and at wrong place. But it's not too late, yet....
Baby Boomers could care less about what happens to my generation. All they want is their Social Security. There's no doubt that they are the worst generation in the American history.
These new citizens are building countless mosques and demanding their social, cultural and religious beliefs be incorporated into (or replace) existing laws. It is even said that in Muslim religious schools they are teaching that Jews and Christians are scum and must be eliminated.
Gee, for the whole time I thought that Islam is the religion of peace! C'mon, we can't allow this crap to happen to the Western Civilization. If things are already like this now, what would it be like for the next generation?
If there is one, that is.
Yeah, and I'm lucky to be alive. Many folks just don't realize that if they were born after Roe vs. Wade, a fair number of them won't even be alive!
Is Bill really an optimist about human nature though, or his he just a little more certain about the ultimate outcome of history?
Agreed. Hence, The Death of the West
Sounds interesting, according to Amazon.com.
The thesis of this provocative and potentially important book is the increasing threat of violence arising from renewed conflicts between countries and cultures that base their traditions on religious faith and dogma. This argument moves past the notion of ethnicity to examine the growing influence of a handful of major cultures--Western, Eastern Orthodox, Latin American, Islamic, Japanese, Chinese, Hindu, and African--in current struggles across the globe. Samuel P. Huntington, a political scientist at Harvard University and foreign policy aide to President Clinton, argues that policymakers should be mindful of this development when they interfere in other nations' affairs. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
The most significant struggle is the Western Civilization aganist Islamic Fundamentalism, obviously.
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