The Economy of Abortion

Though I hesitate to reduce the horrendous nature of child murder down to dollars and cents, I'd like to make something of a point for those of us who won't stop complaining about how bad the economy is and why the all-beneficent Fed should bail us all out.

The average American consumer spends $49,638 per year in both necessary and desired expenditures.

The average cost of an abortion is $413 according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute.

The United States averages 1.5 million abortions per year, currently totaling about 49,551,703 since 1973.

At an average of $413 per abortion, that's a $619,500,000 per year industry.

Since 1973, that's about $20,464,853,339 (that's $20.4 Billion) American dollars spent on abortion, having the following economic impact:

Let's be generous. Let's pretend that average consumer spending would be a mere 50% of what it is today had these 50 million people been given a chance to participate in our economy (in spite of the far better chances that would increase, since increased demand would necessitate increased supply and create jobs aplenty).

If the nearly 50 million Americans killed via abortion since 1973 had been given a chance, and if they averaged $25,000 per year in consumption, we'd be looking at $1,238,792,575,000 per year in additional consumer spending. That's $1.2 Trillion a year, folks.

Just for fun, and for a better taste of reality, let's put our average American consumer spending back at the $49,638. Then we'd be looking at $2,459,647,433,514 in consumer spending –each year- over and above what we have right now.

There's no telling, out of the 50 million people murdered, who might have produced a cure for cancer or diabetes, who might have invented a new means of transportation that had zero impact on our environment, who might have succeeded in bringing about world peace, or who might have corrected our health care industry. We will never, ever, ever know.

Meanwhile, the $619 Million per year abortion industry, aside from the tragic cost in human life, is snuffing between $1.2 and $2.4 Trillion dollars out of economic circulation, a number that only grows with every passing year.

This is the economy of abortion. This is just looking at the United States.

And the UNFPA and Guttmacher Institute are calling for $24 Billion to provide "modern family planning services." Can you imagine the economic impact of abortion worldwide?

Pertinent Parody and Prurient Politics

A recent article in The Onion makes me laugh, and then makes me cry. Under the aptly named title "Increasing Number of Parents Opting to Have Children School-Homed," the parody is sadly not too far off from the truth:

"Every year more parents are finding that their homes are not equipped to instill the right values in their children," Miller said. "When it comes to important life skills such as proper nutrition, safe sex, and even basic socialization, a growing number of mothers and fathers think it's better to rely on educators to guide and nurture their kids."

Meanwhile, San Diego's Unified School Board gives every indication that they wholeheartedly agree.

The San Diego unified school board decided to change a controversial policy that had mandated that school staff contact parents if they discovered that a student was pregnant or considering an abortion, ending nearly three years of debate and uncertainty over the rules.

Planned Parenthood and other advocates for changing the rules said it brought the school district in line with state law. The new rules state that student pregnancy or other sensitive medical information is confidential. The revised policies also permit students to leave campus without notifying their parents if they need to obtain confidential medical services, which can range from alcohol counseling to abortion.

Though the revised rules were expected to be controversial, nobody publicly protested the change before the school board, which voted unanimously to change the policies.

Notice nobody publicly protested the decision. Apparently the rising trend in 'school-homing' is more real than The Onion gets credit for…

Let's get this straight. You're in High School. You can't vote. You can't drink. You can't smoke. You might not be able to drive. You can't die for your country. You can't get married. But you CAN get pregnant, talk it over with your school counselor, and sneak off for an abortion without one word whispered to your parents. So while you're not qualified to make decisions on who best represents you in government, you're not qualified to moderate your alcohol intake, you're not qualified to decide to smoke, you're not qualified to sign up to defend your country, and you may not be qualified to drive a car – you ARE qualified to freely engage in sexual intercourse, seek medical advice, and acquire medical services up to and including surgery. And the added bonus is that your parents just have to suck it.

Wow. And parents, apparently, are quite comfortable with this.