Posted on 08/01/2014 7:57:46 AM PDT by wagglebee
The pro-life movement often talks of the science behind life in the womb, the fact that abortion leaves emotional, psychological and physical scars on women and the inherent beauty of every life. What we don’t often talk about, though, is money.
After all, doesn’t it seem somewhat crass to couch pro-life arguments in terms of economic benefit? The reality, though, is that abortion hasn’t impacted our society only in emotional, social, and cultural ways. It’s also impacted our society economically. And one political scientist is now claiming this very thing.
Mark A. Olson, a former liberal community organizer turned pro-life consultant, has published research that abortion in America has cost our nation more than $16 trillion in federal revenue – or approximately the amount of our current national debt.
In a slide presentation summarizing his research, he first notes that the figure of 50 million abortions far under-represents the cumulative population loss due to abortion, which he places at a staggering 126,469,904 as of January 1, 2014.
Based on this number, Olson applies the per capita individual tax burden to the lost population number for each year, a method which he says controls for other demographic variables. His finding: as of January 1, 2014, $15,734,000,000,000 in federal revenue has been lost due to abortion.
A press release issued today by Olson stated, “Basic macroeconomics says that any such loss in population will result in a collapse of the necessary aggregate supply and demand to sustain long term national economic growth. The population loss due to abortion would have the same negative economic impact as any population loss due to war, epidemic, or natural disaster. “
Olson concludes that the fiscal problems our nation is facing can be solved neither by conservative nor liberal policies – but only through ending abortion on demand.
The reality is that abortion doesn’t ‘only’ kill children. It doesn’t only devastate women. It doesn’t only shock and grieve men. It doesn’t only deaden national conscience and deprave our collective culture. It does all of these, and more.
Certainly, life is sacred apart from economics – and it always will be. And truth be told, waving signs that read “Save a life, save the economy” probably won’t change many minds and hearts.
At the same time, evaluating the impact of abortion without evaluating the resulting economic losses is an incomplete study. Tragically, we know that not even one dollar of that lost $15 trillion is enough to bring back one of the precious lives lost through abortion.
But one thing we can do is make sure that not one more dollar funds the taking of innocent lives – and not one more dollar propagates the lie that abortion does no harm.
That’s exactly what I ask people. How do you know you’re not aborting the next Thomas Edison, or Steve Jobs?
So apparently, there is a Leftist website out there that trolls the ZOT threads, does screen captures of peoples’ profile pages, and they have a good hearty Leftist circle-jerk while high-fiving each other over pizza and root beer in the mom’s basements.
Yours truly was their featured target on July 11th. Their comments were both obscene and anonymous.
And apparently they like Ursula...
That is a great article,the kind that sold me on Free Republic many years ago. Lately things seem to be in accord with opinions and somewhat one sided. I believe that does little to help us resolve the problems and situations we find ourselves in these days.
We need more intelligent,thoughtful pieces like that,thanks for posting it.
Congratulations! You seem to have “made it” into the Bottom-Feeder Hall of Fame! LOL
Silly ol’ lefties! But at least they have the good taste to think well of Ursula! :)
I know just the site you’re talking about. The person who runs it is pathetically obsessed with FR, and I say that sincerely. There’s no way he could have a job and monitor this site as thoroughly as he does.
I note that he and the owner of another site...well, blog, since it’s Wordpress...seem to have some kind of link. This other one, an ex-Freeper, has stated that FR is anti-Jew, which is a lying smear.
I checked out the July 11 entry you mentioned, Sarge, and sure enough, there was a pic of you. Like I said, very thorough....and obsessed to the nth degree.
BTW, Sarge, I didn’t know you hate women! Come sit by me...I got mentioned there once as a woman-hater myself, LOL.
*waves to the anti-Freeper*
Yeah, I saw where they screen-copied comments I made - funny thing is, it’s someone who knows how to navigate FR well. So it must be either some anti-FReeper, or a Leftist with a long career of trolling.
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