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America’s Demise

Abortion: America’s March to Oblivion

James F. Gauss

651,008 – According to the U.S. Department of Defense, since the start of the Revolutionary War in 1775 and through all of America’s wars and conflicts, large and small, 651,008 American military men and women lost their lives in combat and service to their country. That includes the 9 years of fighting for our freedom from the oppression of England; the 4 year War of 1812; the 82 years of sporadic wars against the Native Americans; the Mexican War of 1846-1848; the 5 years of devastating Civil War, 1861-1865, where almost 215,000 Union and Confederate soldiers lost their lives in battle and many more in prisons on both sides; the Spanish-American War of 1898; the two World Wars with a combined battle death total of 344,959; the 4-year Korean War; the 12-year military involvement in Vietnam and the Gulf War of 1990-91. Even if we add the current death total of Americans in Iraq, the total military deaths pale by the comparison by our wanton slaughter of the innocents.

47,282,923 – the number of abortions in America from 1973 through 2005, or an average of 1,432,816 killings of innocent life per year, or more than twice the total military deaths since the founding of this country.

What If? What if we did not slaughter our unborn? What if the 22,250,500 babies murdered from 1973 through 1988 where allowed to be born and grow to productive adults? Those babies would now be between the ages of 18 and 33. What if 70 percent of them were in the workforce making an average of $10/hour (a typical entry wage for factory work). As a combined workforce of 15.57 million people, they would be earning $324 billion/year. Even at the lowest tax bracket, these phantom individuals who were not allowed the privilege of living productive lives, would be contributing almost $50 billion/year in income tax revenue and another $50 billion/year in Social Security and Medicare tax revenue. They would also be adding hundreds of billions in economic production and billions more in tax revenue from sales, gasoline, service fees and other taxes and fees.

What if these innocents were allowed to live? Would we need immigrants – legal or illegal – to replace workers we currently do not have enough of for jobs we are told that Americans will not take? (Please note, with the national unemployment rate at 4.4 percent as of October, 2006, the nation is considered to be fully employed. There are not a lot of American citizens available for new jobs.) Would we need to legalize 12 million illegal immigrants and jeopardize our national security and increase our crime rate? Would we have such a drain on our welfare system and ever-increasing tax burden on U.S. citizens to support the flood of immigrants who are usually ill-prepared to fend for themselves and their families without taxpayer help?

What if these innocents were allowed to live? Would we have to worry about who is going to replace the 76 million baby boomers leaving the workforce over the next two decades? Certainly a few million of the innocents – if allowed to live – would be having children of their own who would also become productive members of society.

What if these innocents were allowed to live? Would the threat to Social Security and the millions of retirement age Americans be as severe as it is currently predicted? Would the National Debt be as high? Would the individual tax burden be so great if more were sharing it? There are many questions that will forever go unanswered.

To make matters worse, the United States has one of the lowest birth rates per 1000 population in the world. At 14.14 births per thousand population we are ranked 154, just slightly higher than China with its repressive “one child” policy. According to the Population Institute and other source data, for the United States to replace its dying citizens, there needs to be 2.1 births per women. Since Roe vs. Wade in 1973, the United States has not achieved the required replacement birth rate for over 30 years.

As a consequence, we have created our own death march to oblivion and will continue to be overrun by those who do not share the same vision, loyalties or values that were originally established in this formerly great country where life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness once reigned supreme.