Low Birth Rates Undermining Greece. Result of Population Controllers' Foolishness.

Low birth rates, due in large part to the ideology of abortion advocates and population controllers at groups like Planned Parenthood, is contributing to the demise of the Greek welfare state.  There are more to come.

Abortion advocates have long argued that abortion (and massive birth control campaigns) is necessary because societies and the world cannot support increasing populations.  They've scared people into believing that the planet cannot sustain burgeoning populations and so we must "thin the herd" through abortion and birth control to make sure that we all have adequate resources. 

Not only is this untrue, but it is dehumanizing and dangerous.  It argues that we should be able to kill certain classes of human beings, in this case the unborn, so others can prosper.  As always, this endangers every class of humans.  When anyone or any class of humans become expendable, we all become negotiable.  Once we justify the killing of any human being(s) or group(s) of human beings, we make it necessary to justify our own existence.

Well, besides this, there are practical consequences to these low birth rates.  Low birth rates are contributing to the unraveling of societies and their welfare programs. Right now the most obvious and painful is Greece. Today Washington Post economics writer Robert Samuelson notes the impact of low birth rates on Greece's current economic mess and its threat to its welfare state in his column Greece and the Welfare State in Ruins.

"The threat to the euro bloc ultimately stems from an overcommitted welfare state. Greece's situation is so difficult because a low birth rate and rapidly graying population automatically increase old-age assistance even as the government tries to cut its spending. At issue is the viability of its present welfare state.

"Almost every advanced country -- the United States, Britain, Germany, Italy, France, Japan, Belgium and others -- faces some combination of huge budget deficits, high debts, aging populations and political paralysis. It's an unstable mix. Present deficits may aid economic recovery, but the persistence of those deficits threatens long-term prosperity. The same unpleasant choices now confronting Greece await most wealthy nations, even if they pretend otherwise."

I don't presume Samuelson's views on abortion and other population controls.  But the population controllers' propaganda that other people, specifically unborn children, are a threat to us and our way of life is nonsense.  The situation in Greece and what confronts other low birth rate nations (to say nothing of the morally offensive notion that we can dispose of other human beings to benefit others) shows how wrong that notion has always been.