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.”

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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.”

Many of the problems in the world and ALL of America's domestic problems have been made worse by abortion.

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[stephenjohnbanker]

Much worse.

[JoeFromSidney]

It doesn't matter how many stocks or bonds you own. If there aren't workers for the issuing firms, there will be no dividends. Nor anyone to pay into Social Security's Ponzi scheme, either.

[COBOL2Java]

Please fix the title; should read:

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

[wagglebee]

I'm not sure I see the mistake I made.

[wagglebee]

Or buy whatever it is you're producing. It is IMPOSSIBLE to grow an economy without normal population growth.

[SgtHooper]

Hey! It’s a renewable source of fuel! /s

[COBOL2Java]

Your title says:

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

"More That" should be "More Than". I assume you intended it to be the latter.

[wagglebee]

You are correct. I copied it from the source and didn't even see it.

[EternalVigilance]

And yet, the author of this piece is one of the top mouthpieces of those in America whose whole strategy on abortion is to pass laws which grant statutory permission to kill babies, all of the babies, as long as they are killed on time, and by their arbitrary rules.

Regulated mass murder is still mass murder.

And abortion, even a single abortion, remains immoral, unconstitutional and illegal.

[wagglebee]

And yet, the author of this piece is one of the top mouthpieces of those in America whose whole strategy on abortion is to pass laws which grant statutory permission to kill babies, all of the babies, as long as they are killed on time, and by their arbitrary rules.

I know and that bothers me as well, though he did take most of his info from HLI.

[CyberAnt]

And .. the abortionists still HIDE THE FACT that most of the abortions precede breast cancer.

And .. stats have concluded that even a miscarriage can cause cysts in the breasts.

[octex]

Firstly, let me say that I’m pro-life.

Secondly, let’s consider what 2 billion more humans on Earth at this time would mean... fewer resources per person, as the requirements for food, water, etc., would be jeopardized.

The scenario reminds me of a movie I’ve seen a couple of times —I can’t recall the title and even used Google— , where people lived in a pretty closed environment after some apocalyse (like nuke war). .......Upon reaching the age of 35 or something, the adults were required to go to something called “Sanctuary”, where they died and that made room for the younger people born into the community with limited resources.

I can imagine that a significant increase in the Earth’s population would probably result in mandated euthanasia for people of some specified age.

[Repeal The 17th]

“Logans Run” - Carrousel ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSUAAKFLoL0
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Shall I also link you to “Soylent Green”?

[jmcenanly]

The Nazis killed 60 million people and have become a symbol of organized evil. How will history remember the “pro choice” crowd?

[Ronaldus Magnus]

Firstly, let me say that I’m pro-life.

Not sure what being pro-life means to you, but let's go with it for now.

Secondly, let’s consider what 2 billion more humans on Earth at this time would mean... fewer resources per person, as the requirements for food, water, etc., would be jeopardized.

This Neo-Malthusian nonsense has long been completely debunked. The assumption that the food production can't keep up with population growth is factually untrue. An additional two billion people would mean more people to produce food, clean water, etc. Since relatively little of the the earth's tillable land is producing food for consumption, this is not a constraint. In fact, food production efficiency is increasing beyond any possible human growth rate.

Nature: Malthus foiled again and again

...I can imagine that a significant increase in the Earth’s population would probably result in mandated euthanasia for people of some specified age.

It's actually just the opposite. A degrading of the respect for the life of any class of people results in the lowering of the value of everyone else's life. It is no coincidence that the countries that support euthanasia the most have the lowest birthrates.

[wagglebee]

Firstly, let me say that I’m pro-life.

I'm sure the Nazis told themselves the same thing when they outlawed abortions for Aryan women.

Secondly, let’s consider what 2 billion more humans on Earth at this time would mean... fewer resources per person, as the requirements for food, water, etc., would be jeopardized.

Malthus first suggested this over 200 years ago when the earth's population was around 1 billion, we're now over 7 billion and doing just fine.

What Malthus and everyone else who pushes leftist tyranny through "population control" ignores is that a larger population results in more productivity. The world isn't even close to using up its natural resources. Food production is curtailed to create price stability. There is no shortage.

The scenario reminds me of a movie I’ve seen a couple of times —I can’t recall the title and even used Google— , where people lived in a pretty closed environment after some apocalyse (like nuke war). .......Upon reaching the age of 35 or something, the adults were required to go to something called “Sanctuary”, where they died and that made room for the younger people born into the community with limited resources.

Yes, I am well aware that the left is fond of producing movies with the "you better let us do what we want or the consequences will be dire" theme. It's propaganda and nothing else.

I can imagine that a significant increase in the Earth’s population would probably result in mandated euthanasia for people of some specified age.

They're going to try to mandate euthanasia anyways, but YOU are using the murder of TWO BILLION INNOCENT BABIES to justify letting the left do whatever they want.

[trisham]

Yes, I am well aware that the left is fond of producing movies with the "you better let us do what we want or the consequences will be dire" theme. It's propaganda and nothing else.

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It's also been remarkably successful, since much of it is directed toward young people who are inclined to be much more naive and trusting than adults.