Every child has the inherent right to life.
Article 6 of the 1989 United Nations
Convention on the Rights of the Child.[1]
Anti-Life Philosophy.
Women all over the world are struggling to rid themselves of the
burden of unwanted children so that they can escape the endless cycle of
poverty brought on by misogynist, backwards social attitudes.
In order to accomplish this goal, safe, legal abortion and free or
cheap contraception must be made available to all the world's women
especially those in developing countries.
Introduction.
No nation wanting to reduce its growth ... can epect to do so
without the widespread use of abortion.
Stephen D. Mumford and Elton Kessel.[2]
Many pro-life activists who are familiar with the situation in the
United States believe that the human race has reached the bottom of the
"slippery slope," and that our respect for human life could
not possibly slip any further.
Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth.
The United States suffers far too many abortions, even by
pro-abortion standards but still accounts for only about three
percent of the world's annual 55 million abortions![3]
Incredibly, abortion has claimed the lives of more than one
billion unborn children throughout the world over the last 25 years,
as shown in Figure 57-1. The magnitude of the loss of human resources
and talent to this hideous slaughter is truly incomprehensible.
FIGURE 57-1
ANNUAL WORLD LEGAL ABORTIONS, 1969-1990
GRAPH NOT AVAILABLE
IN THE LAST QUARTER CENTURY, THE WORLD'S ABORTION ADDICTION
HAS KILLED ONE BILLION UNBORN CHILDREN!
Bad as things seem, we in the United States have only just begun the
long slide down the slippery slope. Other nations seem to have taken up
permanent residence at its foot. We have only to look to these countries
to see our own inevitable destination. If we are to save ourselves and
our nation indeed, if we are to rescue even the last vestiges of our
very humanity we must heed the stark warnings and the prophecy that
their eamples provide.
The Communist Abortion Addiction.
When will those idiots in Moscow realize that the damage done
to our women by abortion is quite equal to the harm done by drug
addiction and alcoholism?
Soviet gynecologist Archil Khomasuridze.[4]
The Former Soviet Union World Abortion Capital. About eighty percent
of the former Soviet Union's unborn children are murdered by abortion,
and this slaughter has proceeded unabated in spite of the recent
upheavals and 'counter-revolution.' Although this is a shocking figure,
it is nowhere near as bad as that in some Communist countries which use
abortion purely for population control and thereby kill more than ninety
percent of their heritage.
The former Soviet Union currently holds the dubious title of 'world
abortion champion,' recording even more "kills" than mainland
China, which has a population four times larger. The Soviet Union
suffered an incredible 12.8 million abortions in 1965 out of a total
population of 233 million ten times the current rate in the
United States! For more than 15 years, an average of three-fourths of
all Soviet women's pregnancies have ended in abortion.[5] As the
abortion mentality sinks ever deeper into the Soviet psyche, this figure
has risen to about 90 percent in recent years. The former Soviet Union
now commits an average of 20 million surgical abortions per year.[6]
This means that Soviet women have aborted about 350 million of their
preborn babies in the last 25 years which makes the Soviet Union the
only country that has wiped out the equivalent of more than its own
population within the last generation.
This Soviet addiction to abortion is the direct cause of many bizarre
and sometimes devastating demographic changes. For eample, in 1987 the
Soviet authorities announced a coercive program to reduce the birthrate
among the mostly Moslem people of the Republic of Tadzhikstan, because
their families, averaging si children, had created "a demographic
situation which is growing complicated."[7]
This quaint and vastly understated phrase means that Soviet women
have been aborting the 'native' population out of eistence for decades,
and the Soviets must now force other populations to bring down their
birthrates as well, or they will simply be overwhelmed by their
so-called 'minorities.'
The Soviets are taking the easy way out instead of trying to limit
their own abortion rate, they are compelling other ethnic groups to
emulate the sordid practice of aborting three-fourths of their unborn
children.
Some Soviet authorities have finally recognized the gravity of the
situation, and are speaking out. According to E.A. Shevardnadze, head of
the Georgia Soviet Socialist Republic; "Has anyone the moral right
to ignore the fact that so many women are striving to rid themselves of
the future generation? In the past year, there were 100,000 abortions in
this Republic, twice as many as in 1960. And this is only officially
registered abortions. Mostly the basis of not wanting children is
frivolousness and egoism. And certain doctors not only do not prevent
this, but engage in a crude violation of the law, carrying out the
dubious practice at home."[8]
Romania Goes Through the Cycle Twice!
The leaders of other Communist
countries have done more than merely decry their abortion situations.
Romania, for eample, recorded 1,115,000 abortions out of a total
population of 19,030,000 in 1965, a world record of 4.04 abortions per
live birth meaning that four-fifths of all their pregnancies ended in
abortion! One-fourth of all women of childbearing age had an abortion
each year, and each woman averaged eight abortions in her
lifetime. This abortion rate was fully 10 times greater than the current
rate in the United States. Romania's population was on the brink of a
steep plunge to etinction.
In 1966, the government outlawed abortion ecept for cases involving
the mother's life, health, rape and incest, and eugenics. This may
appear to be a long list of eceptions, but the Romanians kept strict
control over their documentation, and abuse was relatively infrequent.
The results were dramatic: in 1967, Romania had a total of 51,700
abortions, a 95 percent decrease over a period of just two years.[5]
But Romania still had not learned its lesson. The Communists
once again allowed more and more eceptions, until in 1983, there were
421,000 abortions to 321,000 births. Once again, Romania had one of the
world's highest abortion ratios, with 1.31 abortions per live birth.
Finally, the Communist Party's Central Committee banned abortion once
again on March 7, 1984, and dictator Ceaucescu stated flatly that he
wanted four children from every woman (pro-abortionists shout that
banning abortion will lead to compelled childbirth, but what they fail
to mention is that this happens only in Communist countries).
Romanian women eperienced the identical reproductive coercion that
Chinese women do, only with the opposite intention they received a
medical eamination after each cycle, and if they were pregnant at the
end of the first cycle but not at the end of the second, they were
interrogated. Contraceptives were also banned. In fact, people still
single at 25 and couples with no children paid an etra five percent
income ta. Doctors convicted of doing an illegal abortion a second time
received the death sentence!
When Ceaucescu was overthrown in 1989, the incoming government
immediately legalized abortion yet again for an unprecedented third
time! For a little while, pro-abortionists, ever on the lookout for
propaganda opportunities, tried to titillate an uncaring American public
with garish photographs of 'unwanted' children warehoused in Romanian
orphanages, and with stories of what might happen if 'right-wing
fanatics' got their way in the United States.
Faye Wattleton, former president of the Planned Parenthood Federation
of American, was, as usual, in the forefront of the propaganda campaign
as she stated in a Humanist magazine; "If you think I'm being an
alarmist, look at the history of Romania under Nicolae Ceaucescu. To
boost the birthrate, the dictator banned contraception and abortion.
Over time, birthrates were virtually unchanged but the maternal death
rate skyrocketed. Nearly 1,000 Romanian women died each year from
illegal abortions and those are just the ones who went to hospitals.
Countless others, terrified of the law, chose to die at home. Today, in
Bucharest alone, up to 30,000 women await hospital treatment for
abortion complications. And 40,000 babies have been left orphaned or
abandoned. This is the grisly legacy of a state that tried to control
its citizens' reproduction."[9]
If Wattleton is the most intelligent and honest person that the pro-
aborts can muster to lead them, they are in bad condition indeed. To
begin with, her figure of 1,000 Romanian women dying of illegal
abortions is simply an unsupported echo of the figure used in the United
States and, like the U.S. number, it is a barefaced lie.
Wattleton also asserted in the above statement that one-fifth of all
Bucharest women of childbearing age are awaiting care for botched
abortions at any given time.
Only the blindest pro-abortionist would believe such nonsense.
Wattleton and others tried their best to paint Ceaucescu as
"typical of the anti-choice mindset." What they failed to
mention, of course, was that the Romanian government did not ban
abortion and birth control because it had any particular respect for the
sanctity of life, but because it viewed life as a 'commodity' to be
'accumulated for the greater good of the State.'
This pro-abort nonsense and the 1989 propaganda film "The
Handmaid's Tale" both flopped miserably. It was a bad year for
pro-abortion propaganda.
China Abortion on Command.
Most pro-life activists are familiar with
the forced contraception, sterilization, and abortion program in the
People's Republic of China. The Chinese are not particularly bashful
about this coercion, and claim that it is necessary for their survival
as a nation. The National Organization for Women and other groups praise
this program, thereby giving the lie to their assertions that they are
not 'pro- abortion,' but 'pro-choice.' It is estimated that the Chinese
now commit 10 to 12 million abortions a year.[10]
For a further description of China's coercive population control
program and the enthusiastic pro-abortion support of it see Chapter 50,
"Forced Abortions."
Europe: The Dying Continent.
Introduction.
The direct cause of abortion is the separation of se
from procreation. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the European
countries.
The only European country that currently boasts a replacement
birthrate of 2.2 children per family is not coincidentally the only
European country that still outlaws abortions Ireland. In fact, there
are only three countries in the entire 'first' (developed) world that
now reproduce themselves Poland, Malta, and Ireland. Significantly,
Poland was the only Communist-controlled country that reproduced
itself.[5]
However, if the population controllers have their way, this will soon
change. The depths to which Poland has sunk was recently demonstrated by
the country's Commission on Health and Physical Culture, which made the
astounding claim that the legalization of abortion had completely
eliminated not only all infanticides, but all suicides by pregnant
women as well![6,11]
Plunging Birthrates.
Most of the world's lowest birthrates are
concentrated in Europe (see Figure 57-2 for a comparison of the
birthrates of some developed countries). East and West Germany, Italy,
Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, France, Spain, and other European
countries all have birthrates of less than 15 per 1,000 population
annually. This means that they have gone far below zero population
growth and are beginning the long and agonizing process of societal
suicide.
FIGURE 57-2
1990 FERTILITY RATES IN DEVELOPED AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
[A medium text size on your computer's 'view'
setting is recommended, otherwise, the tables may be discombobulated.]
1990 FERTILITY RATE (CHILDREN PER COMPLETED FAMILY)
REPLACEMENT RATE = 2.20
HONG
KONG
1.42
GERMANY,
ITALY
1.50
DENMARK,
AUSTRIA
1.54
SWITZERLAND,
NETHERLANDS
1.57
BELGIUM
1.60
CANADA,
GREECE
1.69
SWEDEN,
SPAIN
1.73
JAPAN, UNITED
KINGDOM
1.76
FRANCE,
PORTUGAL
1.80
UNITED
STATES
1.87
AUSTRALIA
1.93
POLAND
2.21
SOVIET
UNION
2.40
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (PRC)
2.44
ARGENTINA
2.78
BRAZIL
3.16
MEXICO
3.57
INDIA
3.79
Notes. "Total fertility rate" is defined as the average
number of children that would be born per woman if all women lived to
the end of their childbearing years (usually taken to mean age 44) and,
at each year of childbearing age, they eperience the average birth rates
for each country. If a country's population is to be stable, the total
fertility rate must be 2.20. The above 25 countries contain 3,250
million people, or 65% of the world's population.
Reference: United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the
Census. Reference Data Book and Guide to Sources, Statistical
Abstract of the United States. Washington, DC: United States
Government Printing Office. 1990 (110th Edition), 991 pages. Table
1,440, "Vital Statistics, 1989, and Projections, 2000 Selected
Countries."
The cause of this self-immolation should be chiseled on their
gravestones as a warning to others; a total lack of respect for the
procreative function bestowed upon us by God.
The table below shows that the ten mainland European countries have
suffered a shortfall in native births of nearly 20 million in the last
20 years, and the trend shows no signs of abating. The direct and
indirect impacts of slow suicide on a continental scale are already
becoming evident, as violence flares in Germany and other countries in
response to a flood of non-native immigrants.
TABULATION OF SHORTFALL OF NATIVE EUROPEAN BIRTHS, 1973 TO 1992
Births Required
Annual
Year
for Replacement
Births
Shortfall
1968
3,500,000
4,206,000
1969
3,564,000
4,096,000
1970
3,630,000
3,989,000
1971
3,662,000
3,893,000
1972
3,694,000
3,799,000
1973
3,734,000
3,641,000
93,000
1974
3,775,000
3,490,000
285,000
1975
3,794,000
3,350,000
444,000
1976
3,814,000
3,216,000
598,000
1977
3,846,000
3,181,000
665,000
1978
3,879,000
3,147,000
732,000
1979
3,911,000
3,208,000
703,000
1980
3,943,000
3,271,000
672,000
1981
3,980,000
3,232,000
748,000
1982
4,018,000
3,194,000
824,000
1983
4,058,000
3,162,000
896,000
1984
4,099,000
3,131,000
968,000
1985
4,140,000
3,100,000
1,040,000
1986
4,181,000
3,069,000
1,112,000
1987
4,223,000
3,039,000
1,184,000
1988
4,265,000
3,009,000
1,256,000
1989
4,308,000
2,979,000
1,329,000
1990
4,351,000
2,950,000
1,401,000
1991
4,395,000
2,921,000
1,474,000
1992
4,439,000
2,892,000
1,547,000
Total 20-Year Shortfall: 17,971,000
NOTE: The ten European countries represented above are Austria,
Belgium, France, Netherlands, West Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain,
Portugal, and Denmark. Greece is not included.[12]
Case Studies.
Introduction.
By no means is the United States the only nation in
demographic trouble. The pattern is simple and invariably the same:
ARTIFICIAL CONTRACEPTION
always leads to
ABORTION
which inevitably will lead to
EUTHANASIA.
Many developed nations offer us stark lessons in this inevitable
progression. The only question that remains is: Do we have the wisdom to
learn from the mistakes of others?
The following paragraphs describe the terrible situations that four
developed countries find themselves in, directly as a result of
embracing the free-se, utilitarian modern ethic.
Sweden.
In Sweden, homoseuality enjoys full legal equality with
normal lifestyles. Graphic se education is given to all children
beginning in kindergarten. More than 80 percent of all teenagers have se
before the age of 18, and the average "seual debut" for boys
and girls is at age 14. Contraceptives are pushed on girls before they
even have their first menstrual cycle.[5]
The result of this total seual freedom was entirely predictable.
Suicide is epidemic, especially among young people. Over the last 15
years, teenage pregnancy increased 1,600 percent, and pregnancy in girls
14 or under increased more than 1,000 percent. The Swedish Se Education
Association (RFSU) collaborates closely with the International Planned
Parenthood Federation. Since 1970, venereal disease has eploded 400
percent, and the rape of girls 14 and under has risen more than 500
percent. The state pays for all of Sweden's annual 35,000 abortions per
year. Doctors are forced to perform abortions or they will lose their
jobs and any hope of promotion.
In Sweden, it is illegal for a father to spank his twelve-year old
daughter, but it is all right for him to have seual intercourse with
her.
Sweden's 'seual paradise' is the dream of pro-abortion groups all
over the world. Free abortions and contraceptives are lavished upon
anyone who wants them, and anyone can engage in any type of se at any
age with no consequences whatever ecept, of course, natural
consequences like AIDS, gonorrhea, herpes and syphilis.
Italy.
After a chemical accident released clouds of deadly-poisonous
Dioin in 1976 near Seveso, busloads of Neofeminists invaded neighboring
villages and demanded that all pregnant women get abortions. All
pregnant women were told that they would give birth to retarded
and deformed children. Frightened half to death, more than 75% of the
pregnant women in the area crowded into the local slaughterhouses, which
welcomed the sudden boom in business.[13]
When the women who did not abort gave birth to perfectly healthy
children, the Neofeminist groups suddenly became permanently unavailable
for comment. Many of the women who felt compelled to get abortions were
angry and bitter enough to attempt to hunt down these Neofeminist liars,
who had suddenly made themselves scarce.
In 1978, eight years after divorce was legalized, the Italian
Parliament, dominated by Communists and Socialists, approved laws which
pay for all abortions. As a result, annual abortions rose from 100,000
to 2,000,000 in less than ten years. And why not? Why not use abortion
for birth control if it is free and easy?
As a result of this abortion orgy, Italian births have plunged from
1,018,000 in 1964 to less than 600,000 annually now. The 1981 Report
to the Italian Parliament showed that, in some large areas, five out
of every si pregnancies end in abortion 84.3 percent![14] This is a
worse survival rate than that in the Mauthausen concentration camps
during World War II!
In Italy at least, the womb is as dangerous a place for a baby to
live as Nazi concentration camps were for Jews to live. What a sad
commentary on humanity!
And as if this were not enough, the Italian Communist Party is
continuing to push for bills allowing se between adult men and 12-year
old girls.
Germany.
Planned Parenthood called itself "Pro Familia" in
the former country of West Germany (this is analogous to calling the
Nazi Party "Pro Juden!"). "Pro Familia" had free
reign in this country since 1952. As a result, this former nation of 61
million people suffered more than 500,000 abortions annually.
Additionally, 57 percent of all couples had one child, or no children at
all. It is therefore no surprise that West Germany had the world's
lowest birthrate before unification 1.2 children per couple, barely half
of replacement rate.[5] Also predictable is the world's highest suicide
rate, at 40,000 persons killed per year, four times the enormously high
rate in the United States.
The German Catholic bishops reject Humanae Vitae, the 1968
encyclical on birth control and abortion. The world's most eplicit
"se shops" abound in Germany. These shops provide a vast array
of "marital aids," including rubber body parts, inflatable,
anatomically-correct adult dolls of both sees, whips and chains, and
even more garish and repulsive items. These shops are everywhere and the
largest one of all is in the main concourse of Frankfurt International
Airport! No wonder the Germans are jaded about se!
In 1985, for the first time, West Germany was unable to meet its
armed forces conscript quota due to its lack of 18-year old boys.
Foreign tourists have remarked on the almost total absence of small
children in some West German towns.
And visiting American pro-lifers nervously encounter the eerie
spectacle of Germans dressing small dogs in epensive clothes and
wheeling them around town in custom-built baby carriages, as if trying
to meet some compelling but unmet need.
It is as if the Pied Piper of Hamelin has returned for the second and
final time, leading all of the little German children down the one-way
road to the abortuaries.
Japan.
Japan is yet another of the growing body of countries that
have many more abortions than births. This nation of about 120 million
suffers more than two million abortions a year, about four times the
rate of the United States. It is interesting that Japanese legislators
naively consider their abortion laws to be 'strict,' but predictably, 90
percent of all abortions are performed under the 'economic grounds'
eception. This abortion rate gives Japan a subreplacement rate of 1.7
children per completed family.
Japan's population situation contrasts sharply with that of the
United States and Western European nations in several respects. The
birth control pill and IUD are banned because of their serious side
effects. Teen chastity is encouraged, and 'only' 30,000 abortions were
committed on teenaged girls in 1991 one-ninth the rate in the United
States.
The vast majority of abortions are committed on married women, the
inverse of the situation in the United States. Additionally, Japan's
total population is actually beginning to decline, due to the lack of
immigration caused by the island nation's considerable linguistic and
societal barriers. Other developed countries notably the United States,
Germany and France can maintain their total population by allowing heavy
immigration.
Interestingly, Japan has the world's longest life epectancy, at 80
years average for women and 74 years average for men. This factor,
combined with an ever-shrinking working population, will create an
etremely critical worker-retiree support conflict within the net 15
years.
Japanese women kill their preborn children at an astonishing rate in
order to conform to the hardened public and private mandate that two
children are the maimum that any family should have for the good of the
environment and of society. This coercion is certainly more subtle than
that in the People's Republic of China but it is coercion nonetheless.
However, Japanese women at least have a religious mechanism for
dealing with their guilt and remorse. Buddhist memorial services for
their aborted babies which are referred to as "water children sent
from dark to dark" have become a booming business in Japan.
The ceremonies claim to give aborted (and miscarried) children
protection offered by the Jizo Deity, who wards off devils who would
otherwise make them his slaves for all eternity.
The standard memorial includes is a wooden slat or small stone tablet
with inscriptions such as "Forgive your foolish father;"
"Come back into my womb after five years;" "I'm very
sorry. I love you, but I couldn't help it;" and "Please find
rest and peace."[15] Despite this booming business, Japanese
government officials deny the eistence of post-abortion suyndrome, just
as they do in the United States.
The Buddhist temples advertise heavily, and their ads etol the
virtues of their competing deities with clever sales pitches that play
on guilt and fear. One ad in a large Japanese newspaper features a color
photo of a large Buddhist Kanon goddess holding a child in her arms. The
accompanying narrative warns; "Beware lest what you did brings
misfortune to your family like divorce, all kinds of family troubles;
you did away with this child, burying it into terminal darkness and
misfortune. Apologize for what you did to this water child just as soon
as you can by doing the memorial service; help this water child to
become peaceful. Ask the Mizuko Kanon [goddess] to drive away the evil
spirits from your water child, to bring it happiness instead of sadness.
That is for you the shortest road to your own happiness."
The Buddhist priests are obviously wise enough to frame their appeal
in terms of self-interest the same motivation that led to the abortions
in the first place.
It is estimated that the Buddhists make a third of a billion
dollars annually on these memorial services, supplementing the billion
dollars made by Japanese abortionists annually.[15]
We in the United States have begun to imitate the Japanese with grave
plots and memorial services for the preborn, despite the fanatical
resistance of such anti-religious groups as the American Civil Liberties
Union and the National Organization for Women, who have actually taken
pro- lifers to court for daring to attempt to bury the sad little bodies
of aborted preborn babies.
Declining Birthrates.
PP in the Lead.
The number one priority of the International Planned
Parenthood Federation is world population control. This is its Holy
Grail, the highest good, the goal towards which it strives with every
breath. In the pursuit of this objective, the organization simply
ignores all obstacles that decent people would heed such as local
customs, religions, and laws.
Planned Parenthood and other population control agencies spread
abortion as far and wide as they possibly can, including incursions into
many areas where the result is conditions that would make the
"back-alley abortions" they complain so much about seem almost
like paradise by comparison. An IPPF conference on abortion held in
Accra in December of 1973 recommended that the Karman curette should be
standard equipment in the medical packs of traditional midwives and
paramedical workers who travel about the countryside.[16] And then the
same people who systematically violate the laws of a multitude of other
nations rave about "400,000 illegal abortion deaths every
year!"
We must wonder how many were committed by PP-equipped lay people!
Since it is blinded by its obsession with population control, Planned
Parenthood does not hesitate to join forces with governments that
systematically violate civil rights on a wide scale. A 1984 London
Observer editorial eposed the connection between repressive regimes
and Planned Parenthood; "The Salvadorean regime of President Alvaro
Magana, the American Government, and the London-based International
Planned Parenthood Federation are collaborating in a high-pressure
campaign to force Salvadorean women from poor families to be sterilized.
Although sterilizations are supposed to be voluntary, reports from
several areas of El Salvador reveal that the sterilizations are, in
fact, compulsory. Salvadorean hospitals, clinics and fieldworkers are
set monthly targets for the number of sterilizations they are to carry
out ... The sterilization campaign is carried out by the Salvadorean
Health Ministry and the Salvadorean Demographic Association, a private
agency which is a member of the International Planned Parenthood
Federation and receives funds from Britain and the U.S."[17]
Results of the Campaign.
The population controllers have been wildly
successful in many areas by frightening governments with their talk of
deadly 'population eplosions.' European nations, caught up in pursuit of
pleasure without consequence, are dying as a result. However, the popcon
propagandists have also been very successful in most Asian countries.
Figure 57-3 shows the results of this campaign. Many Asian cultures,
which previously bore an average of more than si children per family,
are now under replacement rate. Mainland China, Singapore, and South
Korea have eperienced respective fertility decreases of 60 percent, 75
percent, and 65 percent, and are all at or under replacement rate. All
of these countries provide abortion on demand, and even pay for most of
these abortions. They seem to have emulated the worst of Western society
and are also now abortion addicts.
FIGURE 57-3
FERTILITY REDUCTION IN POPULOUS COUNTRIES
FERTILITY RATE (CHILDREN PER COMPLETED FAMILY)
DECLINE IN PERCENT, 1960
-
1990 53%
REPLACEMENT
RATE = 2.2
MEXICO
3.6
7.0
48%
MALAYSIA
2.9
6.9
58%
TURKEY
3.7
6.8
46%
COLOMBIA
2.9
6.8
57%
EGYPT
4.7
6.7
30%
PERU
3.7
6.6
44%
THAILAND
2.2
6.6
67%
TAIWAN
1.8
6.5
74%
SINGAPORE
1.6
6.3
75%
INDIA
3.8
6.2
39%
BRAZIL
3.2
6.2
48%
SOUTH
KOREA
2.2
6.0
63%
SRI
LANKA
2.4
5.9
59%
INDONESIA
3.3
5.6
41%
P.R.
CHINA
2.4
5.5
56%
CUBA
1.7
4.7
64%
Notes. "Total fertility rate" is defined as the average
number of children that would be born per woman if all women lived to
the end of their childbearing years (usually taken to mean age 44) and,
at each year of childbearing age, they eperience the average birth rates
for each country. If a country's population is to be stable, the total
fertility rate must be 2.20.
References. (1) Jodi L. Jacobsen. Planning the Global Family (Worldwatch
Paper 80). The siteen countries shown possess 61 percent of the world's
population. (2) United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the
Census. Reference Data Book and Guide to Sources, Statistical
Abstract of the United States. Washington, DC: United States
Government Printing Office. 1990 (110th Edition). Table 1,440,
"Vital Statistics, 1989, and Projections, 2000 Selected
Countries."
Figure 57-4 shows historical and projected world and regional
population characteristics by area development and gender over the
40-year period 1960 to 2000. The most significant conclusions drawn from
this figure are that;
FIGURE 57-4
HISTORICAL AND PROJECTED WORLD POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS
Population in Million
1960 1965 1970 1975
1980 1985 1990 1995
2000
North America
199 214 226
239 252 264
275 287 297
Central America 71
83 95
108 122 137
154 173 190
South America 146
168 191 216
242 273 297
327 356
Europe
425 444 460
474 484 492
499 506 512
Soviet Union
214 231 243
254 266 278
292 304 315
Africa
293 330 375
427 491 566
645 751 872
Asia
1,685 1,871 2,112 2,364 2,593
2,831 3,058 3,304 3,549
Oceania
16 17
19 21
23 24
26 28
30
WORLD
3,049 3,358 3,721 4,103
4,47 4,865 5,246 5,680
6,121
Population Distribution
by Area Development
More Developed
945 1,002 1,049 1,096 1,136
1,173 1,208 1,240 1,268
Less Developed
2,104 2,356 2,672 3,007 3,336
3,692 4,038 4,440 4,853
Population Distribution by Sex
Males
1,526 1,681 1,863 2,056
2,244 2,443 2,634 2,870 3,099
Females
1,523 1,677 1,858 2,047
2,229 2,422 2,612 2,810 3,022
Growth Rate in Percent
1961- 1966- 1971-
1976- 1981- 1986- 1991- 1996-
1965 1970 1975
1980 1985 1990
1995 2000
North America
1.5 1.1
1.1 1.1
0.9 0.8
0.8 0.7
Central America 2.8
2.7 2.5
2.4 2.3
2.3 2.3
1.9
South America
2.7 2.6
2.4 2.4
2.3 1.9
1.7 1.7
Europe
0.9 0.7
0.6 0.4
0.3 0.3
0.3 0.2
Soviet Union
1.5 1.0
0.9 0.9
0.9 0.9
0.8 0.7
Africa
2.4 2.5
2.6 2.7
2.8 2.6
3.1 3.0
Asia
2.1 2.4
2.3 1.8
1.7 1.6
1.5 1.4
Oceania
2.1 2.1
1.9 1.5
1.3 1.4
1.4 1.4
WORLD
1.9 2.1
2.0 1.8
1.7 1.6
1.6 1.5
World Parameters
Crude Birth Rate
35.1 33.9 31.6
28.4 27.1 26.0
25.0 23.8
Crude Death Rate 14.5
13.3 12.2 11.2
10.5 9.9
9.3 8.8
Life Epectancy
54.0 55.9 57.7
59.2 60.9 62.6
64.3 65.8
Median Age
19.9 20.8 21.6
22.4 23.3 24.2
25.3 26.4
Reference: United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the
Census. Reference Data Book and Guide to Sources, Statistical
Abstract of the United States. 1990 (110th Edition). Table 1,440,
"World Population."
(1) world population epansion has dropped from a high of 2.1 percent
per year in the period 1966-1970 to a current rate of 1.6 percent per
year, and is epected to drop even further before the turn of the
century.
(2) the crude birth and death rates have dropped by one-third in the
last 30 years, and the overall world life epectancy has increased by a
decade during the same time period.
(3) the median age has increased from under 20 in 1960 to over 25
now, and is epected to continue its increase.
Conclusions.
Despite the bleakness of the picture, there is still ample hope for
the world. Certain countries, including Japan and Romania, are working
diligently to reduce their abortion rates for purely utilitarian
reasons. Others are seeing the wisdom of protecting the unborn child
simply because each eecution is a terrible miscarriage of justice.
One shining eample is the Philippines. Former President Ferdnand
Marcos, who fully approved of abortion for population control purposes,
imported thousands of battery-operated suction machines specifically for
killing the unborn in rural villages. Then Corazon Aquino, who is one
leader who is proud of her Catholic faith, took office as President of
the Philippines.
On December 1, 1986, Philippine voters passed a new Constitution
which included the clause: "The State shall equally protect the
life of the mother and the life of the unborn from conception."
World Abortion Availability.
Planned Parenthood and other population controllers enjoy bragging
that many or most countries are 'progressive' enough to allow abortion
on demand.
Not surprisingly, this statement is a gross eaggeration. Only 22
countries allow their unborn citizens to be slaughtered at their
mother's whim. Unfortunately, nearly one-half (49.4%) of the world's
population of five billion resides in only five of these countries the
People's Republic of China, India, the Soviet Union, the United States,
and Japan. An additional 55 countries provide numerous eceptions for
abortion such as eugenics and the mother's physical or mental
health.[18]
The 77 countries that provide abortion on demand, which include
three- fourths of the world's population, therefore provide little or no
protection for their unborn citizens.
On the other hand, 66 countries, which include the remaining
one-fourth of the world's population, prohibit abortion entirely or
allow it only for rape and incest or to save the mother's life.
Figure 57-5 provides a summary of the status of abortion in 143
countries which include 96 percent of the world's population. Figure
57-6 shows the individual status of abortion 'rights' in these
countries.
FIGURE 57-5
SUMMARY: WORLD ABORTION AVAILABILITY
Population Data
Population World
Criteria for Obtaining Abortions
Countries in 1990
Percent
Abortion entirely illegal
19 194,940,000
3.7
Abortion legal for the following reasons;
Life of the mother only
35 790,610,000
14.8
Life and rape and incest
4
225,400,000 4.2
Life and physical health
13 247,120,000
4.6
Life, physical health, eugenics
5
138,620,000 2.6
Life, physical/mental
health
9
56,000,000
1.1
Life, physical/mental health,
and eugenics
4
36,780,000
0.7
Life, rape and incest, eugenics
2
16,140,000
0.3
Life, rape/incest,
physical health
9
152,330,000 2.9
Life, rape/incest,
physical/mental health
1
2,310,000 0.1
Life, rape/incest, physical
health, eugenics
5
47,620,000 0.9
Life, rape/incest, mental
health, eugenics
1
36,700,000
0.7
Abortion on demand
36 3,345,000,000
62.8
Position on abortion unknown
25
30,065,000
0.6
TOTAL WORLD POPULATION
168 5,319,635,000
100.0
References. (1) Christopher Tietze. Induced Abortion, A World View.
The Population Council, 1983. (2) Emily Campbell Moore-Cavar. International
Inventory of Information on Induced Abortion. International
Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction, Columbia University,
1974. 656 pages. (3) Bureau of the Census, United States Department of
Commerce. National Data Book and Guide to Sources, Statistical
Abstract of the United States. 1988 (108th Edition). Table 1,438,
"Population and Area, By Region and Country, 1980 and 1989, and
Projections, 1990 and 2000."
FIGURE 57-6
ABORTION AVAILABILITY IN 143 COUNTRIES AS OF JULY 1992
Country and
Physical Mental
Population (millions)
Life R&I
Health Health Eugen.
Other
Afghanistan
15.59 •
Albania
3.27 •
•
Algeria
25.71 •
•
Andorra
0.05 •
Argentina 32.29
•
•
•
•
Australia
16.64 •
•
•
•
•
•
Austria
7.60 •
•
•
•
•
•
Bangladesh 115.75
•
•
Bahrain
0.51
Barbados
0.26
Belgium
9.90 •
Benin
4.84 •
Bolivia
6.73 •
•
•
•
Botswana
1.28 •
•
•
Brazil
157.94 •
•
•
Bulgaria
8.98 •
•
•
•
•
•
Burkina Faso 8.94
•
•
•
Burma
41.28 •
Burundi
5.47 •
Cambodia 6.99
•
Cameroon 11.11
•
•
•
Canada
26.53 •
•
•
•
•
•
Central Af. Rep. 2.88
•
Chad
5.05 •
Chile
13.01 •
•
•
•
•
•
China 1,114.51
•
•
•
•
•
•
Colombia 32.60
Congo
2.31 •
•
•
•
Costa Rica 3.04
•
• •
Cuba
10.55
•
•
•
•
•
•
Cyprus
0.71 •
•
•
Czechoslovakia 15.70
•
• •
•
•
Country and
Physical Mental
Population (millions)
Life R&I
Health Health Eugen.
Other
Denmark
5.13 •
•
•
•
•
•
Dominican Rep. 7.50
•
Djibouti
0.34
Ecuador
10.79 •
•
•
Egypt
56.22 •
•
•
El Salvador 5.66
•
•
•
•
England
39.38 •
•
•
•
•
•
Ethiopia
51.38 •
•
•
Finland
4.98 •
•
•
•
•
•
France
56.18 •
•
•
•
•
•
Gabon
1.07
•
Gambia, The 0.82
•
•
•
•
Germany, East 16.58
•
•
•
•
•
•
Germany, West 60.98
•
•
Ghana
15.23 •
Greece
10.07 •
•
•
Guatemala 9.25
•
Guinea
7.27 •
•
Guyana
0.77
Haiti
6.51 •
•
•
Honduras
5.29 •
•
Hong Kong 5.77
•
•
•
•
•
Hungary
10.55 •
•
•
•
•
Iceland
0.25 •
•
•
•
•
India
850.07 •
•
•
•
•
•
Indonesia 191.27
•
Iran
55.25
•
Iraq
18.87
•
•
•
Ireland
3.52
Israel
4.45 •
•
•
•
•
Italy
57.66 •
•
•
•
•
•
Ivory Coast 12.07
Country and
Physical Mental
Population (millions) Life R&I
Health Health Eugen.
Other
Jamaica
2.51 •
•
•
Japan
123.75 •
•
•
•
•
•
Jordan
3.07 •
•
•
Kenya
25.39
•
•
•
Korea, North 23.06
•
•
•
•
•
•
Korea, South 43.92
•
•
•
•
•
•
Kuwait
2.08 •
•
•
Laos
4.02 •
Lebanon
3.39 •
Lesotho
1.76 •
•
•
Liechtenstein 0.03
•
•
•
Liberia
2.63 •
•
•
•
Libya
4.21 •
Luxembourg 0.37
•
•
•
•
•
Madagascar 11.80
•
Malawi
8.20 •
Malaysia 17.05
•
•
Mali
9.18
Malta
0.37
Mauritania 2.04
Mexico 86.89
•
•
• •
•
•
Monaco
0.03
Mongolia 2.19
•
•
Morocco 26.25
•
•
Mozambique 15.83
•
Nepal 19.16
•
•
Netherlands 14.86
•
•
•
•
•
•
New Zealand 3.40
•
•
•
•
•
Nicaragua 3.61
•
Niger
7.69
Nigeria 118.87
•
Norway
4.21
•
•
• •
•
•
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