Abortion and "Family Planning" Policies Impact Immigration

America’s four decades of abortion and “family planning” (contraception) policies are having a DIRECT IMPACT on our policy of what to do with the roughly 12 million immigrants living in the United States illegally and the shape of future immigration policy.  How so?

   

American birth rates, due to contraception and abortion and the change in attitudes toward children and large families, are too low to sustain our economy and our entitlements and pension systems without a massive influx of immigrants.  For a nation to replace its population, it needs 2.1 children for every woman-and that is depending on the incredible advances of our health care system which has driven down infant morality.

   

For a look into the future of what America will be like unless it increases its reproduction rates, consider impotent, dying Old Europe.  Put a fork in them.  They’re cooked.  It’s over.  There’s no tomorrow.  There’s no longer any reason to take Old Europe seriously as an economic or military force because their states are dying as a result of their abortion and anti-family planning polices. 

   

With low birth rates, these nations have required and received massive infusions of non-native, non assimilating mostly Muslims immigrants to sustain their nation's labor demands.  I have nothing against these Muslims, but Europeans feel threatened by them and stand to lose their national identities. They can’t send these non-assimilating immigrants home even if they wanted to because they depend on them.  There aren’t enough of their own young to fill the labor needs of their nations. Because they depend on them and because the Frenchies and other old Euros have such a low regard for children, reproduction and large families, in 50 years they will be bowing to Mecca five times a day in the Cathedral of Notre Dame.

   

You say "come on Nelson, it’s not over."  Au contraire!  It's over.  Do the math.  The European birth rate is about 1.57.  That’s including the more fertile eastern European nations who didn't lose their Catholic identity under the repression of communism.  Russia is losing over 1 million people a year.  She will lose one third of her population in 50 years. Her reproduction rate is about 1.17. It’s over in Germany (1.4).  It’s over in Italy (1.2).  It’s over in Spain (1.1).  Old Europe is done.  It’s not going to get better. 

   

What's worse is that as far as we can tell, these nations CANNOT convince their young to step up reproduction-not even with the kind of tax and other government incentives offered in France.  Russian women do NOT want to participate though they are given huge incentives to do so.  It’s also over in Japan.  Singapore is in a race to keep from going out of existence too.  But they too have problems getting young women to go along.  Wouldn't it be bizarre if for all the pro-abortion talk of pro-lifers forcing women to be government baby factories, that governments ended up coercing women to have children to save their national identities?  Years of telling women that children are obstacles to happiness and personal fulfillment and that abortion is a fundamental right to achieving that happiness is killing the west and other developed nations.

   

How has America’s 40 year abortion and anti-“family planning” policies impacted the illegal immigration/amnesty debate...  If the numbers are accurate, America's fertility rates are too low.  The United States (1.99) needs to have an aggressive immigration policy to bring in more people to make up for our baby bust and low birth rates.  If we don’t.... it will be over for us too.  It’s possible that the resurgence of young Catholics bearing large families, Mormons (and some evangelicals) bearing large families will add more to our population, but right now the only thing that seems to keep us somewhat of a young nation and growing nation, are immigrants.  They are allowing us to experience the necessary growth in our population to sustain a growing economy. 

   

We need these immigrants because we have aborted 45 million unborns in America-the combined populations of California, Oregon, Arizona, Utah and Nevada. Black Americans, a target for abortion, abort 43 out of 100 pregnancies and account for about 35 percent of all abortions, though they are only 11 or 12 percent of the population.  With white women reproducing at such a low rate and black women aborting at such a high rate, we probably need to keep that border open or the America economic boom is over and our entitlement and pension plans are finished

   

I’m not advocating for an immigration policy here at all.  I am saying that, whatever the right or wrong of illegal immigration and amnesty programs-and whatever our future immigration policies will be, our choices have been DIRECTLY LIMITED by America's 40 year abortion and anti "family planning" policies.