There is an interesting article on World Press Review about how a number of countries are struggling to deal with an aging population and a decreasing birth rate. Their struggle lies in the fact that they can see that as the population ages there will be fewer people in the work force to contribute to the pensions that support the aging. A large part of the problem is that many woman are starting to opt not to marry early and are opting to have fewer children when they do marry. It has only been recently with the advent of birth control and wide spread availability and acceptance of abortion that the desire to not have children has been feasible. Until recently if a woman wanted to marry or have sex she knew that motherhood was almost inevitable.
It doesn't surprise me that the western world is starting to have trouble with this shift in priorities. Of course when woman are faced with whether or not to raise a large family many will choose not to. Motherhood is difficult and independence, money, and success are appealing. I think that God designed woman to be mothers and to stay home and raise them rather then shipping them off to daycare. I recognized that some woman are forced to send their kids to daycare and in that case I don't think that it is wrong but I think that it's less then ideal.
If the countries mentioned in the article were really interested in solving their problems they would quit killing their children before they were born. One statistic that that I saw for the US in 1996 was that one in five pregnancies ends in abortion. In 2001 in Canada approximately one in four pregnancies ended in abortion. As you can see without abortion the birth rate would be significantly higher. As much as making abortion illegal isn't the easiest solution to the problem it is certainly the best solution.
On a final note, please realize that the only reason that I think that abortion should be illegal is because it kills a human being. I'm not anti-abortion because it cause societal problems; I'm not anti-abortion because it increases a woman's chance of breast cancer; I'm not anti-abortion because it screws woman up; I'm anti-abortion because I'm anti-murder.
Posted by rose at November 25, 2004 01:43 PM | TrackBackYou're right, I think we should outlaw abortion so young girls have to give birth to their molesting father's babies. 14 year olds should be forced to have the bastard child of their rapists. That would be much better for society.
Posted by: Almost Lucid (Brad) at December 1, 2004 11:03 AMAt least the baby that was conceived from incest or rape wouldn't be murdered because it's father was evil. Two wrong don't make a right - ever.
Posted by: Rose at December 1, 2004 11:19 AMIt's not any of your business. I'm sorry if you think this is "evil spam".
Posted by: Susan at December 6, 2004 05:49 PMStanding up for the defenseless is everybodies business.
The spam that I was getting was from machines that left replies that were only trying to sell things. YUCK
Posted by: Rose at December 7, 2004 09:27 AMSo, why is it more of a priority to 'raise the birth rate' than women (AND VERY YOUNG GIRLS) making a choice they disagree with, don't want, can't afford, and stop them from obtaining the means to actually support this baby.
Unfortunatly, 'God' doesn't leave money in everyone's mailbox.
Drug addicts and alcoholics perhaps realise that they are not at a point in their life to raise a child, especially one which has been as wasted as they were since it was conceived.
The soul consists of a lot more than human flesh; YOU should know the difference.
My body is not a soul factory.
Posted by: Jen at January 23, 2005 09:01 PM