U.S. birth rate rises.....Fundies attribute it to the "Pro Life" movement.....

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from the American Family Assn.'s One News Now:



U.S. birth rates up...more pro-life?
Chad Groening- OneNewsNow - 7/12/2008 4:10:00 AM


A human rights activist and author says after years of a sagging birthrate, the U.S. has once again climbed above the all-important replacement birth rate.

Steve Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute, recently he completed work on his latest book -- Population Control: Real Costs, Illusionary Benefits. As previously reported by OneNewsNow, Mosher says due to years of voluntary birth control, the native European population is dying off. But he says fortunately that is not the case in the United States.

"The good news is that we have now gotten back up to 2.1 children , which is what you need for what is called 'replacement rate fertility' -- that is, the number of children that maintains a stable population," Mosher explains. "We dropped below replacement when abortion was legalized in this country, and so for almost 40 years we've been below replacement rate fertility -- 1.8 children, 1.9, 2.0 -- and now we're back up to two-point-one."

Mosher attributes the improvement to the success of the pro-life movement. "Pro-life sentiment in this country is gradually increasing," he says, " people who are pro-life tend to be open to life -- they tend to have larger families. People who are not pro-life tend to have smaller families. If you are in favor of abortion, you tend to abort your children.

"So over time, America is becoming more of a pro-life country. The birth rate is creeping upwards," Mosher says. "So we're in a very different situation than Europe. And in part, I think, it's because of the strength of religious faith in this country."

Mosher says Americans read the Bible which says that children are a blessing.


http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=174486

is a good thing?

Since when is an increase in teen pregnancy and accomplishment?

or people having nothing to do except have sex. Perhaps birth control methods (condoms, pills, etc.) are now being made in China?

I would've thought it would drop to like 0.3 or something. :sarcasm:

That takes talent, Mr. Mosher . . .:sarcasm:

Would he be referring to the French-born child of an immigrant from Algeria or Senegal? I think not.

It's like saying the Native American population in the US is healthy because of all the US-born children of immigrants from Europe and Africa.

Replace "native" with "indigenous" to spot the misunderstanding.

Hello third world country status here we come.

A LOT more people.

To hear them tell it, we have a serious shortage of people and we could face disastrous consequences if we all don't start pumping out kids, and fast!

start screaming about "bootstraps" when proposals of government aid are made.

and having more children, this just does not make sense. But again, this is Bush's Amerika

One oof the things that cracks me up is when fundies claim that children are a blessing. then they will turn around and say to a teen who has gotten pregnant and is forced to have the baby, "Serves them right."

Wow, they really hate pro-choice people, don't they! We hate children so much that we create opportunities to abort them instead of raising them.

industrialized countries.

I guess that makes it official - we are now no longer a western industrialized country.

Western industrialized countries have:

industry - check
government health system - check
low birth rates - check
democratic government answerable to its citizens - check

We have none of those anymore.

I urge you to consider starting a thread on this.

Needed to maintain a "stable" population...
Hmmm.

Nothing about our population seems stable.
And it could just be me, but didn't America's population go up by something like 30 MILLION in the past 20 years or so?
I'm thinking that in order to stabilize our population, we need fewer people around here.

But birth control is only for those of us who "tend to abort" our children.

Sheesh.

and you'll be in the ballpark of what that's supposed to mean.

Should have seen that.
That IS one of the reasons people started trying to make abortion illegal in the first place, isn't it?

Main reason is, it was a very successful wedge issue upon which the Catholic Church and the Southern Baptist Conference could unite.

Had the SBC chosen to keep itself officially neutral on legalized abortion which (shocking to some, I know it was to me) they still were, just before Roe v. Wade, the RCC would've been on its own and probably very marginalized politically on this issue, by now.

But you put those two churches together and, well, you have a headache for rational people.

But I digress. Yeah, it was partly about keepin' the races pure. Sure.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200605120006

Gibson: "Make more babies" because in "wenty-five years ... the majority of the population is Hispanic"

If 5 white people each have no offspring, and 5 black people each have 2.1, then that is replacement birth rate, irrespective of ethnicity.

Point taken though.

and their equally stupid anti-contraceptive movement.

It offsets all childless couples.