Americans aren't making enough babies to replace ourselves

[Harshaw]

Americans aren't making enough babies to replace ourselves

Well, THAT'S not true. The babies are being made. About 19 percent of them are intentionally destroyed before birth, EXcluding miscarriages.

So, we're 16% below the birth rate needed to sustain population growth. 19 is a bigger number than 16.

Numbers broken down:

According to this, the number of live births in the US in 2014 was 3.99 million.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/195908/number-of-births-in-the-united-states-since-1990/

According to the Guttmacher Institute, the number of induced abortions that same year was 926,000 (the last year they have a fact sheet for).

3,990,000 + 926,000 = 4,916,00.

926,000 = 18.8% of that total.

Indeed, as they say flat out:

Nineteen percent of pregnancies (excluding miscarriages) in 2014 ended in abortion

Or, looking at it another way, there could have been 23% more births but for the abortions.

Which means abortions more than account for the shortfall. Yet, that doesn't even come up in the discussion.

Now, you may take the position that it's a good thing, and the population should dwindle, in which case you're likely to welcome the news, and you're perfectly consistent in doing so.

But if your position is that the population shortfall is a bad thing, then why wouldn't the intentional termination of nearly 1/5 of pregnancies be something worth at least mentioning?

 

[Deuce]

No, no no dude! Didn't you get the progressive memo? ALL CULTURES ARE EQUAL! There's no such thing as one culture having more fair, free, or desirable traits than another! The only OBVIOUS exception to that rule, is of course western culture, which is just awful compared with all the others! Lol

Christians shouldn't be allowed to live here because their culture is inferior to mine.

 

[Grand Mal]

No, no no dude! Didn't you get the progressive memo? ALL CULTURES ARE EQUAL! There's no such thing as one culture having more fair, free, or desirable traits than another! The only OBVIOUS exception to that rule, is of course western culture, which is just awful compared with all the others! Lol

Hey, hey, hey! Enough of that. Your President wants to attract Norwegians. Norwegians are western culture. Don't mix up the message The Donald wants to present to the Scandahoovians.