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?