Posts Tagged ‘Fertility Rates’
How Does Abortion Affect the United States?
The first states legalized abortion in 1967. Since then, there have been about 61.7 million abortions performed in this country. One-sixth of our nation’s entire population has disappeared into the maws of the latter‑day extermination camps that the corrupt media calls “reproductive care centers.” How does abortion affect society? We have killed a vast number…
Read MoreWhat Is Pronatalism?
In 2014 in Fourni, Greece, not one single baby was born. The same was true in 2015. In 2012, only one child was born in the town of Lestijärvi, Finland. What is happening in these countries is not an anomaly. Countries throughout Europe are seeing population declines that their governments are trying desperately to reverse.…
Read MoreThe Environmentalist Roots of the Population Control Movement
Concern for our environment is the most altruistic of the several primary motivations which drive the activities of the population control movement. Unfortunately, the leaders of many population control groups think that the best way to preserve our natural surroundings is to decrease the number of people in the world by whatever means are available.…
Read MoreUnited States Fertility Rate Hits New Low
Population control advocates say ‘Hooray,’ but is there reason to celebrate? A sobering new report finds the U.S. fertility rate has hit a 40-year low. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control estimate that there were about 3.85 million births in 2017, which translates into a total fertility rate (TFR – the number of children a…
Read MoreTragic Irony in the Death of Toys “R” Us
Life is full of irony. I am thinking of Toys “R” Us’ recent announcement that it will be closing all its stores. That the toy chain has been forced to shutter due to financial pressure doesn’t come as a shock. In the age of Amazon, many brick-and-mortar stores are going out of business, unable to…
Read MoreWhat is the Abortion Situation in Europe?
Many American pro-lifers wonder what the long-term impacts of abortion will be on the United States. We have been making significant progress against the Culture of Death over the past decade, but if our progress is reversed and abortion strengthens its hold on our society, what will happen to our country? With Obamacare’s funding of…
Read MoreWhat is the Abortion Situation in Africa?
The most effective way to compel the people of a country to serve another nation is to colonize their minds instead of their land and force them to adopt their conqueror’s values. This produces nations led by compliant and easily corruptible people who will allow the usurpers to pillage their country’s natural resources with impunity.…
Read MoreWhat is the Abortion Situation in South America?
South America has a strong Catholic heritage and is relatively friendly towards preborn children. Four small countries, representing only five percent of the population of the continent, have abortion on demand laws or many exceptions that mean the same thing in practice. These are Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana and Uruguay. Chile, Paraguay, Suriname and Venezuela…
Read MoreNo Spaniards, No Spain
Guest commentary by María José Mansilla-Arcos, director of Association Spei Mater, HLI’s affiliate in Spain. The Institute for Family Policy in Spain recently published a report titled Demography and Birthrate in Spain. Even though demography is not often publicly discussed in Spain, the report has been picked up by the mass media due to…
Read MoreA Paradigm Shift in International Development
People are not the problem. Someone from the international aid and development industry has some explaining to do. In an analysis of financial data from the decade ending in 2010, The Economist lists the world’s most populous nation, and six African nations whose total fertility rate is among the highest in the world, as being among the ten…
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