Okay, just to get things started, let me express my mandatory insults here (hey isn’t this the way we are supposed to express our opinions?) and say to all those Pro-life and anti-abortion people: @*>%!!!!
Now that we have settled that, perhaps all of you might be interested in reading something you don’t even want to think about, and that is the coming time ahead when abortions will not only be much more common then they are now, but essential for our survival. In fact, if there wasn’t as many abortions as there already are, the odds are good that the world would be a much more miserable place to live than it is now.
People who bellyache about all the murdered unborn almost always fail to realize the full extent of the synergistically coupled population/enviornmental problem. I’m just going to give you a brief refresher here and then show you that unless we push abortion more world wide, how we are all going to suffer from the consequences.
The following information is taken from the February, 2002 issue of Scientific American: http://www.sciam.com/2002/0202issue/0202wilson.html
On or about October 12, 1999, the world population reached six billion. It has continued to climb at an annual rate of 1.4 percent, adding 200,000 people each day or the equivalent of the population of a large city each week. The rate, though beginning to slow, is still basically exponential: the more people, the faster the growth, thence still more people sooner and an even faster growth, and so on upward toward astronomical numbers unless the trend is reversed and growth rate is reduced to zero or less. This exponentiation means that people born in 1950 were the first to see the human population double in their lifetime, from 2.5 billion to over six billion now. During the 20th century more people were added to the world than in all of previous human history. In 1800 there had been about one billion and in 1900, still only 1.6 billion.The pattern of human population growth in the 20th century was more bacterial than primate. When Homo sapiens passed the six-billion mark we had already exceeded by perhaps as much as 100 times the biomass of any large animal species that ever existed on the land. We and the rest of life cannot afford another 100 years like that.
By the end of the century some relief was in sight. In most parts of the world--North and South America, Europe, Australia, and most of Asia--people had begun gingerly to tap the brake pedal. The worldwide average number of children per woman fell from 4.3 in 1960 to 2.6 in 2000. The number required to attain zero population growth--that is, the number that balances the birth and death rates and holds the standing population size constant--is 2.1 (the extra one tenth compensates for infant and child mortality). When the number of children per woman stays above 2.1 even slightly, the population still expands exponentially. This means that although the population climbs less and less steeply as the number approaches 2.1, humanity will still, in theory, eventually come to weigh as much as Earth and, if given enough time, will exceed the mass of the visible universe. This fantasy is a mathematician's way of saying that anything above zero population growth cannot be sustained. If, on the other hand, the average number of children drops below 2.1, the population enters negative exponential growth and starts to decline. To speak of 2.1 in exact terms as the breakpoint is of course an oversimplification. Advances in medicine and public health can lower the breakpoint toward the minimal, perfect number of 2.0 (no infant or childhood deaths), while famine, epidemics, and war, by boosting mortality, can raise it well above 2.1. But worldwide, over an extended period of time, local differences and statistical fluctuations wash one another out and the iron demographic laws grind on. They transmit to us always the same essential message, that to breed in excess is to overload the planet.
Later in the article…
The encouragement of population control by developing countries comes not a moment too soon. The environmental fate of the world lies ultimately in their hands. They now account for virtually all global population growth, and their drive toward higher per capita consumption will be relentless.The consequences of their reproductive prowess are multiple and deep. The people of the developing countries are already far younger than those in the industrial countries and destined to become more so. The streets of Lagos, Manaus, Karachi, and other cities in the developing world are a sea of children. To an observer fresh from Europe or North America, the crowds give the feel of a gigantic school just let out. In at least 68 of the countries, more than 40 percent of the population is under 15 years of age.
A country poor to start with and composed largely of young children and adolescents is strained to provide even minimal health services and education for its people. Its superabundance of cheap, unskilled labor can be turned to some economic advantage but unfortunately also provides cannon fodder for ethnic strife and war. As the populations continue to explode and water and arable land grow scarcer, the industrial countries will feel their pressure in the form of many more desperate immigrants and the risk of spreading international terrorism.
A good portion of this article from this point forward is directed towards the China problem. China now has 1.2 billion people or one fifth of the world total. If it were not for the strict population control already in place in China, which includes abortions on demand, we would see an incredible explosion of people if it was not in place, and it would have caused not only environmental catastrophe and mass starvation in China, but would have pushed China into more instability and remember they have nukes and ICBM’s as well! What is really scary is that even with the tough regulations and the encouragement of abortion in China, is that time is running out for them. There are already too many people for the resources they have and things are going to get a lot uglier in the future.
Because of the dangers resulting from overpopulation, I feel abortion must become even more common and available regardless of any person’s personal viewpoint or religious scruples. Yes, birth control methods are certainly better than abortion but get real, all these are available in the USA and we still see lots of abortions don’t we? So, we got billions of people who are going to have sex regardless of your or my wishes about it and there are going to be hundreds of millions of abortions done as a consequence.
If you are a pro-life person, I suggest you pack up your bags and move to one of these developing countries that have the sea of hungry and resentful children in them and preach your message there. Reality has a way of slapping your dogma in the face when you stick your ass out in the real world.
Skipper
