Over the Last 50 Years, More That [Than]Two Billion Babies Have Been Aborted Worldwide

Life News ^ | 3/5/15 | Steven Ertelt

[wagglebee]

When one considers the number of abortions in any given country, the tally of human life lost to abortion is staggering.

In the United States alone, 57 million unborn children have died from abortions since Roe v. Wade ushered in an era of unlimited abortions in 1973. If you factor in the number of legal abortions in the several states that legalized abortion prior to the Supreme Court's infamous decision, that horrific total is even higher.

But what of the number of babies who have lost their lives to abortion around the world int he decades abortion has been legal in countries across the globe? The number is incomprehensible and its impact is felt in other ways apart from the genocide of an entire generation.

From Human Life International:

At a conference in Rome on Thursday, Joseph Meaney, the Director of International Coordination at Human Life International, argued that abortion not only attacks the weakest of the weak, it actually harms the economy.

Speaking with Vatican Radio ahead of the event, Meaney explained that over the past fifty years, more than two billion babies had been aborted. “So we’re talking about almost a third of the human population which has been eliminated in the last 50 years,” he said, “And that has impacts everywhere, and on all kinds of levels, and on one of those levels is the economics.”

Meaney was refuting an argument made popular in the best-selling economics book Freakonomics, which claimed that abortion in US had reduced crime rate by 50%; and offered social benefits of over 30 billion dollars annually from abortion. Meaney said, the authors “made a post hoc ergo propter hoc error — they said that just because something happened afterwards, it was caused by something that happened before… It’s a common fallacy.”

“Let’s be very clear,” he continued, “Abortion is never permissible. Even if there was an economic benefit to aborting children, we wouldn’t be allowed to do it. It’s immoral to kill an innocent. But it’s also important to refute negative arguments from people who think that they’re making sense. It’s important to refute those arguments so that people don’t have an additional reason to commit the sin of abortion.”

[wagglebee]

I remember about ten years ago going to see that "Day After Tomorrow" global warming hype movie.

It was entertaining along the lines of other movies where the earth is attacked by aliens, yet all these people were walking out of the theater terrified of global warming. It was just like when beaches noted a drop in tourism after "Jaws" came out.

[antidisestablishment]

Actually,Logan’s Run was a movie that showed the effect of bad government solutions to nonexistent problems. The entire reason given for The Carousel was proven false.

[trisham]

I don’t know anything about that particular movie.

[trisham]

Yes, that’s exactly the problem with some of these movies, as well as books, articles and TV shows. They are all very effective ways to impart propaganda.

[wagglebee]

By the 1970s special effects had gone from something to make a movie seem more realistic to being the reason for making a movie in the first place.

I remember going to see "Earthquake" when I was about seven years old and it was in "Sensurround," which basically meant that the theater shook. That is why my friends and I went to the movie, we didn't care about the story, we wanted to see stuff get destroyed.

But somewhere along the line, the left figured out that they could insert their agenda into these action movies and nobody would even care. At the end of "The Towering Inferno" they have Paul Newman and Steve McQueen talking about how they shouldn't build buildings that tall anymore because and that is what the average viewer will leave thinking; however, the entire movie was about how the fire started because the builder cut corners and didn't do what he was supposed to.

[trisham]

But somewhere along the line, the left figured out that they could insert their agenda into these action movies and nobody would even care. At the end of "The Towering Inferno" they have Paul Newman and Steve McQueen talking about how they shouldn't build buildings that tall anymore because and that is what the average viewer will leave thinking; however, the entire movie was about how the fire started because the builder cut corners and didn't do what he was supposed to.

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Yes, that's a very good example. There are many more, not only regarding the issue of life, but of morality.

[citizen352]

I think Farrah Fawcett was in that movie and she was very alluring.

[citizen352]

Soylent Green is not possible. It plays on the fear of Global warming and overpopulation. I do not think millions of able bodied people would be sitting around with nothing to do. The scenario presented in “Soylent Green” would be a great setup for anyone who would become dictator. People would be divided into groups. If the situation persists for any period of time then the groups would gain power by being pitted against each other. The world will not get to the point of overpopulation as depicted in the movie.