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Shrinking population threatens West's culture
Cape Cod Times ^
| 8/2/02
| PATRICIA STEBBINS
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.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: familyplanning; unitednations; westernpopulation
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To: livius
It is not inevitable the birthrates that currently exist in these nations will not rise again. Even if not, perhaps a leaner, meaner Europe is not a bad thing. Obviously, the welfare state, with a declining population, would not survive. But, it's either the demise of the welfare state or the demise of Europe. If the welfare state can only survive with mass Turd World immigration, and if the welfare state is so sacrosant that it cannot be left to rot
Europe will not survive. A Mohammedean Europe is not Europe.
By the way, Spain is the second least Mohammedean-infested nation in Western Europe, behind Portugal. They're not giving up, just yet.
To: Phillip Augustus
Because of its location, Spain has a huge illegal alien Muslim population, although it has so far been able to resist establishing a massive permanent legal alien population, unlike other European countries.
One of the problems is that the welfare state has encouraged this imbalance. Many European states provide per-child payments that were originally designed to encourage native births. But guess what: the natives of those European countries did not have more children, and instead, immigrants (legal or not) benefitted from them. After the families are well installed and living on child payments, the men (who were employed, initially, at least) often return to their home countries, leaving behind families of a mother and 10-12 children. All of these are to be brought up courtesy of the European state in which they reside. Needless to say, their neighborhoods are swamps of unemployment and crime.
You can always tell when you walk into a Muslim area in Spain, btw. Aside from the absence of women and the wailing of Arabic music in the background, you can tell by the fact that the streets are strewn with garbage and filled with young men and boys just hanging out. There have been a number of particularly vicious group rapes (of Spanish women, of course) committed by them in parts of Southern coastal Spain where large Muslim colonies exist. Nationally, over 60% of street crime is committed by "immigrants," who appear to have no interest in peacefully integrating themselves into Spanish culture and life. Yet every time the Spanish resist or complain, all of the liberal press rushes forward and accuses them of being "racists."
I don't know what Europe is going to do; as you have said, a Mohammedan Europe is definitely NOT Europe. One of the big problems, however, is that they are not able to even discuss this problem in Europe. It's not PC. If anybody even raises the matter, the press and the Socialists start to scream that the people discussing it are neo-Nazi fascists. Yet privately Europeans talk about it a lot, and they all know that it is perhaps the biggest problem facing them.
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posted on
08/04/2002 4:29:08 AM PDT
by
livius
To: Torie
Not to put words in my Savior's mouth, but I highly doubt that. Christ knew people were fallen and tended towards evil, that is the reason He walked this earth to save all us sinners who tended towards evil(and that includes ALL of us, including those who don't believe).
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posted on
08/04/2002 4:59:08 AM PDT
by
glory
To: MinorityRepublican
Baby Boomers could care less about what happens to my generation. All they want is their Social Security. There's no doubt that they are the worst generation in the American history>>
That's the reason I never bought thier parents were the "greatest generation" since they raised the baby boomers.
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posted on
08/04/2002 5:01:00 AM PDT
by
glory
To: MinorityRepublican
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.>>
Yes, more children to murder Jews. That's a real superior culture.
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>>
Again, read above.
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posted on
08/04/2002 5:05:03 AM PDT
by
glory
To: MD_Willington_1976
Congrats! We have two and will be adding more hopefully before all is said and done.
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posted on
08/04/2002 5:05:58 AM PDT
by
glory
To: Phillip Augustus
I am going to elaborate on a point that you made. The folks who are having no or less children will be the ones facing extinction and with them thier views(typically pro-abortion, etc). The folks I know repopulating at very decent rates(6,7,8 children) are very conservative Christians(in the US anyway) so what we face in 20+ years is more of us and less of them, so to speak and those children born into those households with 7 siblings may and likely will in turn have large families, well you see the domino effect. As long as we can ward off the third world agressor, I think we'll see a BETTER American in 2 generations since the people who are repopulating this country don't tend to be liberal and have a very strong belief in absolutes.
The only thing I do worry about, and I've seen a little of, is large families becoming "trendy" with the liberal soccer moms. But if I'm right, that is a phase that won't last but 4 or 5 years before you find them back at the counter of Estee Lauder looking for thier fix of wrinkle cream and b*tching about thier sagging belly so it will only infect a small # of them before the trend is over and it is no longer "chic" to have 4 kids.
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08/04/2002 5:16:10 AM PDT
by
glory
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