The magic of compound interest:
It was not merely the loss of this wave of the young, but the children of those young who shall now never be born. Since the introduction of Roe v. Wade, the first wave would have, conservatively, produced at least an equal number of offspring of their own. Would that have particularly affected the national population today? Not if you factor in all the immigrants, both legal (actually a relatively small number) and the illegal squatters who have simply come in and occupied the real estate without regard to the legal niceties, such as getting permission, and proceeding in an orderly manner to each of the steps.
Part of the Fall of Rome can be attributed to the failure of the Romans themselves to preserve the culture, and because of their declining numbers, brought in the subjects of distant territories to run the day to day operations of the Empire. The unsophisticated newcomers had little or no reason to resist when the barbarians surged in.
Exactly the situation in which modern-day Great Britain is finding itself. And the United States is not far behind.
Exactly, our nation's financial problem are ENTIRELY DUE to the population timebomb that was triggered when the American Holocaust began.
Our economy necessitates a growing population.