Posted on 10/11/2006 11:02:24 AM PDT by MBA4Life
It may sound like a scenario from a super-secret nuclear contingency plan, but a silent killer has eliminated a population equal to that of America's 60 largest cities. Forty-eight and a half million Americans have vanished without a trace! According to Dennis Howard, who heads The Movement for a Better America, "that's not some imaginary nuclear contingency plan. It is in fact the cumulative impact of nearly 34 years of abortion on demand.”
MT. FREEDOM, NJ - September 29, 2006 -- It may sound like a scenario from a super-secret nuclear contingency plan, but a silent killer has already eliminated a population equivalent to that of America's 60 largest cities.
According to a regular annual review by The Movement for a Better America, a non-profit, pro-life education organization headquartered here, "Forty-eight and a half million Americans have vanished without a trace."
"This is not some imaginary nuclear contingency plan. It is in fact the cumulative impact of nearly 34 years of abortion on demand,” says Dennis Howard, a former investigative reporter and market researcher who heads the organization and who has been tracking the nation's abortion statistic since 1992.
"What's amazing," Howard says, "is that the vast majority of Americans hardly seem to notice."
His organization doesn’t make these numbers up. They are all based on data collected by the Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of Planned Parenthood. “We simply take the most recent data and project it through the current period. Otherwise, there is always a 2-3 year lag in the estimates.”
Howard asserts, "The fact is that nothing has inflicted more permanent damage on our society than abortion. 48.5 million abortions is 43 times more than all the fatalities from all the wars in our nation’s history, including the ravages of the war on terrorism and the tragedy of September 11. Yet these numbers never seem to make the headlines.”
Howard, who began his career as an investigative reporter and later directed market research projects for major corporations, blames the media for their self-imposed censorship on the abortion issue. “A handful of casualties in Iraq will make the evening news, but the abortion industry will kill more people in two days than we have lost since 9/11, and that never gets a mention.”
”Imagine if we had lost 6,850,000 people in the so-called war on terror,” he said. “That’s how many children we have lost to abortion since 9/11."
Howard's analysis has uncovered a number of reasons for public apathy about the abortion toll:
“Politics can’t change things because of the extreme polarization between the two major parties,” he said. “That started when the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade by edict, instead of allowing normal democratic processes to deal with the issue.
“Roe v. Wade effectively split the country in three – left, right, and confused middle. So now we have politics by media sound bite and bumper sticker cliches instead of healthy, honest political dialogue.”
“In some ways, we’re like the ‘good Germans’ during World War II who never seemed to realize that there was a brutal holocaust going on,” Howard said.
Howard blames public apathy on the fact that the abortion industry operates behind a veil of protected secrecy. “Unlike the Germans, we don’t have industrial-scale concentration camps operating two miles out of town. Only 1 in 15,000 American women have an abortion on any given day, so no one notices. But if you multiply that by 365 days a year for 34 years, the total becomes astronomical.”
Howard has been tracking the economic impact of the abortion toll since 1992, when the count first reached 30.5 million. Since then, an estimated 18 million more babies have been aborted.
“The economic loss may be the least of our problems,” he said. “Abortion has also desensitized the culture to sex abuse, violence, and predation against children. Just look at what we see on television every night."
Nevertheless, Howard’s market research background led him to conclude that the trend had the economic impact of a major nuclear war.
“The human loss from abortion is the same as if all of our major metropolitan centers had been lost to a nuclear attack,” said Howard. “The only difference is that a nuclear war would be a dramatic, cataclysmic event, while abortions take place one at a time in the sanitized privacy of a medical clinic.”
“The long range impact on America's human resources is no different,” he said. “We measure the economic impact of other things like this all the time -- from alcoholism and drug addiction to AIDS and cancer. But the economic impact of losing a baby is far greater than when someone dies after a long life.”
A list of the top 60 cities with a population equivalent to the loss from abortion can be found on MBA's website: www.movementforabetteramerica.org
A few of the more obvious repercussions include:
Social Security: If half of the 48.5 million kids we aborted were working today, they would be contributing an additional $88 billion a year into the Social Security trust fund.
Taxes: The downstream loss in future tax revenues from abortion currently exceeds $18 trillion dollars. “Someone else will have to pay those taxes.”
The end of the Youth Market. “The 30% bite that abortion took out of the youth market is a major reason for the drop in daily newspaper circulation as well as increased competition for young audiences by other media. By supporting abortion on demand, the liberal media are killing off their own future audiences. Pro-choice politicians are doing the same thing. That’s why they have such a hard time winning.”
Labor shortages: There is a looming shortage of labor in critical fields such as nursing, teaching and even the armed forces. “We’re raiding countries like the Philippines for nurses today, and using citizenship as an incentive for immigrants to fill the ranks of the military. Where will that leave us in a major military crisis?”
Immigration: “The labor vacuum created by abortion is also related to the immigration crisis,” Howard claims. “Ross Perot had it wrong: The giant sucking sound was really the sound of illegal immigrants crossing the border from the south, not just jobs heading the other way. Right now, apples and peaches are rotting on the ground in Oregon and Washington because there aren’t enough workers to pick them.”
“As the Pete Seeger song says,” Howard concludes, “‘When will they ever learn?’”
You said -- "the link was provided, so what's the problem?"
The problem is that it's *not* what was posted here!!
You also said -- "Here is the NewsMax article --
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/10/11/150952.shtml?s=us"
SEE IT BELOW--
You said -- "Nothing is backed up in the newsmax article, how do you know that kim sherman is a real person and vote yes to life is a real organization, they didn't provide a pic. of the person or a link to the organization. How do you know if Gov. Mike rounds signed a law? did you see a document with his signature on it? there is no proof. How do you know the Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls printed cards? did newsmax provide a source?"
What I know -- EXACTLY -- is that it came from a *named web site*. I can go to that web site and see it *EXACTLY* as it's posted here on Free Republic. I can see that it has a *date* that matches what is posted *here* on Free Republic. I can see that it has a *title* that matches *exactly* what is posted *here* on Free Republic. I can see that it has an author (whether it's the "staff" or a "named person", which is stated *exactly* as it's stated on the web site -- here on Free Republic.
If *any* of this information is -- changed, added to, subtracted from, emellished, quashed -- or *whatever* -- then -- it is A LIE!
And so, everything that is posted here is supposed to be *exactly* as it is elsewhere -- or else the poster is *lying* and promoting a "version" (in his own limited mind) that does *not exist* in *reality*.
As soon as the author comes back (or maybe not, since he appears to be a "hit and run" poster) -- we'll find out what he was doing and/or thinking...
Regards,
Star Traveler
You ravage your gene pool. You probably have killed a third to half of offspring with high potential. In a kind of reverse eugenics, brighter, well off mothers have kiled their children at as least as high a rate as the poor.
Taxes are confiscatory...to the point that child care and taxes clean out a lot of the 2nd family income...so abortion is chosen as the answer to maintain a standard of living.
I'm not figuring accidental pregnancies from 'hooking up'.
The post was from a news release on prweb http://www.prweb.com (search "48.5 million" + movement for a better america) that is the same as the post. It was based on the article posted on the movement for a better america website of which I am the author. http://www.movementforabetteramerica.org. My byline was left off the original article inadvertently.
I've been researching this topic for over 10 years and make no apologies for what I have written. Nor do I have time for petty squabbles. And, yes, I am new to FR. I will be back again when I have something worth sharing. Meanwhile, thanks to all who read and appreciated my post.
You said -- "The post was from a news release on prweb http://www.prweb.com (search "48.5 million" + movement for a better america) that is the same as the post.
SUPPLY THE LINK!
*This* is the link (that should have been in the link up above, for this posting on Free Republic --
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/9/prweb443630.htm
It should have been indicated as a PRESS RELEASE from an organization, and then name the organization. That's much different than a news article. Press Releases are a "dime-a-dozen".
However, if you want to try and *promote* your web site, then just promote it *directly* and not try to use "subterfuge" to do it, pretending that it's a news article...
Well, here is the beginning of that PRESS RELEASE on the PRWeb Press Release Newswire --
There's nothing new under the sun...
Tertullian about 197 A.D.
"In our case, a murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the fetus in the womb, while as yet the human being derives blood from the other parts of the body for its sustenance. To hinder a birth is merely a speedier man-killing; nor does it matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to birth. That is a man which is going to be one; you have the fruit already in its seed" (Apology 9:8 [A.D. 197]).
"Among surgeons’ tools there is a certain instrument, which is formed with a nicely-adjusted flexible frame for opening the uterus first of all and keeping it open; it is further furnished with an annular blade, by means of which the limbs [of the child] within the womb are dissected with anxious but unfaltering care; its last appendage being a blunted or covered hook, wherewith the entire fetus is extracted by a violent delivery.
"There is also [another instrument in the shape of] a copper needle or spike, by which the actual death is managed in this furtive robbery of life: They give it, from its infanticide function, the name of embruosphaktes, [meaning] "the slayer of the infant," which of course was alive. . . .
"[The doctors who performed abortions] all knew well enough that a living being had been conceived, and [they] pitied this most luckless infant state, which had first to be put to death, to escape being tortured alive" (The Soul 25 [A.D. 210]).
"Now we allow that life begins with conception because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does" (ibid., 27).
"The law of Moses, indeed, punishes with due penalties the man who shall cause abortion [Ex. 21:22–24]" (ibid., 37).
http://www.movementforabetteramerica.org/
here is the link, exactly as it was written by Dennis M. Howard
From I've seen, mba4life did not violate the FR TOS. So you are just wasting your time.
BTW, what have you done for the abortion movement and what FR threads have you created?
You said -- "here is the link, exactly as it was written by Dennis M. Howard"
No, the link is here --
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/9/prweb443630.htm
This is what *matches* what was given here. If that had been given in the first place, then it would have been clear what was given -- namely a PRESS RELEASE -- and the promotion of a web site.
All someone has to do is be *clear* about it....
Regards,
Star Traveler
You said -- "BTW, what have you done for the abortion movement and what FR threads have you created?"
The *more appropriate* question (for a comparison) would be "When was the last time I lied, when copying and posting an article here on Free Republic?"
Regards,
Star Traveler
Not enough.
Huh? Are you saying that number is not an accurate count of abortions, or are you saying more Americans should be dead?
Thanks for the ping!
Looks like you are never the life of the party.
And, you didn't answer the question. Now would be a good time.
**Social Security: If half of the 48.5 million kids we aborted were working today, they would be contributing an additional $88 billion a year into the Social Security trust fund. **
Very telling fact.
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