Posted on 08/02/2002 9:24:10 PM PDT by JulieRNR21
Shrinking population threatens West's culture My View: reader commentary
By PATRICIA STEBBINS Do we really swallow everything we read in the paper without knowing anything of the other side of the issue?
A column in the Sunday Cape Cod Times urges us to "go Dutch" and follow Holland's lead in family planning. Writer Ans Zwerver rhapsodizes on how well her countrypeople in the Netherlands have mastered birth control and abortion. I suspect those who read the article mindlessly thought "how wonderful of them" and then turned to the sports or entertainment pages.
This past year, the United Nations has twice sent out alarmed bulletins, warning that Europe, the United States, Canada and many other countries have so badly fallen behind in replacing their populations that they are at serious risk of extinction. That's right. We are now in the category of "endangered species" along with the spotted owl and right whale.
Japan has recently, also with alarm, told the nation that they are starting to run out of people and "women need to work less and have more children to save their culture."
In his new book, "The Death of the West," author Patrick Buchanan predicts that "by the year 2050, people of European descent will account for only 10 percent of the world population - and most of them will be very old." Please re-read that last sentence and think of your kids and grandkids.
Zwerver chides our president for refusing to fund the United Nations Family Planning Agency (UNFPA), preventing them from further carpeting the world with birth control pills and abortion kits. UNFPA has definitely been linked with helping to enforce China's one-child-per-family credo. The result has been that millions of baby girls have been aborted, abandoned or drowned because Chinese families prefer boys.
UNFPA has been instrumental in forcing abortion and birth control on nations whose constitutions have outlawed both.
Vultures that they are, UNFPA was right on the scene in Afghanistan with condoms and suction kits when the Taliban was defeated. No food or medical supplies, though. Apparently they don't read major bulletins from their parent organization.
And kudos to George Bush for standing firm against unbelievable pressure from the Rad-Fems to fund this $34 million "family planning" gift. (Think what our schools could do with this money!)
Also missing in the media are reports on respected, legitimate research proving abortions (particularly the first pregnancy) increase by 30 percent to 50 percent a woman's risk of developing breast cancer. They also risk hemorrhage, infection, sterility, bowel perforation and death.
For each year of using the pill, a woman's uterus ages two years, so that when she tries to become pregnant at age 30 or 40, her uterus is often too old to support a pregnancy. Never before in history have women had such difficulty in becoming pregnant.
Meanwhile, as Western populations dwindle, the birth rates in Arab/Muslim countries are booming as they fan out all over the world, spreading their culture and religion.
These new citizens are building countless mosques and demanding their social, cultural and religious beliefs be incorporated into (or replace) existing laws. It is even said that in Muslim religious schools they are teaching that Jews and Christians are scum and must be eliminated.
It wouldn't hurt to take a lesson from Japan and consider "working less and having more children" - if only to maintain a balance and protect our health; not to mention leaving a legacy that lasts for generations.
And I wonder if anyone has told Ms. Zwerver and UNFPA that condoms are ineffective in preventing HIV/AIDS because the virus is so small it can slip right through even the best of them?
Patricia Stebbins lives in East Sandwich.
Maybe she was talking about the illegal immigrant population in the US. No. Illegal immigration in the US is increasing at geometric porportions.
I've got it! She was talking about wage earning tax payers. They're decreasing by single digit proportions each year in the US.
Believe it or not, their culture is superior in a way over ours in the sense that they love and cherish their big families, and they do not abort their babies. To them, it is a joy to have another child born in the world. For us, a child is a pain, so we must abort the child.
All the while Westerners are fed story after story about overpopulation. Maybe I really should start wearing a tinfoil cap, because I am positive all this is not all coincidence.
Hilaire Belloc was right. I'll have to send you a link from him that I want you to see.
Ahhhh...the UN. And their solution is always third world immigration. I'm not buying it.
Those who point to populations which are not dropping severely just yet are missing the point. When the first aging, non reproducing cohort (something like 1 child per female, average) dies off in the next few decades, the native depopulation will be rapid unless some widespread attitude adjustments occur.
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