No Kids, No Future
By Dennis Howard
First in a series of articles. © copyright 2015
By next January – the 43rd Anniversary of Roe v. Wade -- the abortion toll in America will reach 59 million innocents.
That should be the story of the century. Yet the liberal media makes more noise about a single Ebola case arriving in the United States . . . or a bunch of bears cavorting in a swimming pool in suburban New Jersey . . . than it does about aborting 30% of the entire American younger generation under age 48.
That’s 30% of our much heralded Gen X, Y, and Z – and nearly 10 times as many innocents as the number of Jews killed in the Nazi holocaust. Yet, in our politically correct age, hardly anyone dares call it a holocaust.
Well, that’s what I’m calling it, and I just celebrated my 65th anniversary as an award-winning Catholic writer.
Because the truth is that it is a holocaust without precedent in human history. Worldwide, abortion has taken some two billion lives since the former Soviet Union launched the abortion holocaust in 1920. And two billion, by the way, is equal to the entire population of the planet in 1927.
If that isn’t a holocaust, I’ll eat my shirt along with every award I ever received for writing the God’s honest truth.
Our unwillingness to admit this is the most amazing kind of denial I’ve ever seen in my long career as a journalist and market researcher.
Motivational researchers call it cognitive dissonance – a psychological conflict between reality and what we allow ourselves to think about it.
Experiencing such a contradiction normally leads to a great deal of pain. Like the guy who pays big bucks for a hot new car only to find out too late that it’s a clunker.
The easy way to minimize the pain of such an experience is to do what psychologists call “maneuver around your hangup.” That is, find some rationalization that will help you feel good about it instead of acknowledging the contradiction.
Like believing the abortion industry when it tells you, “Oh, it’s only a blob of tissue.” Or trusting a politician who promises to make abortion “safe, legal and rare.” Or the U.S. Supreme Court simply pretending that the unborn child isn’t a person. But the biggest lie of all is the one about “choice” when what they are selling offers no choice at all.
The problem with maneuvering around your hangup is that, sooner or later, the piper must still be paid. It changes nothing. It is a denial of reality, period. Instead of facing the problem, we simply pretend the contradiction isn’t there.
So it’s time we admitted that 59 million U.S. abortions...
. . . are equal to the population of our 93 largest cities. It’s exactly the same as if we had a major nuclear war and all the people in those cities perished. Within two more years, the toll will soon include our top 100 cities.
. . . speaking of nuclear war, it is also 513 times more people than perished in the atomic bombing of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.
. . . it’s 90 times more than all the battle deaths in all the wars we have ever fought, starting with the American Revolution.
. . . it’s more than all the people lost in World War II – military and civilian – by all the major powers – including Russia, Germany, Italy, Japan, China, Poland, England, France, Canada and the U.S.
. . . Indeed, the casualty rate for our soldiers in World War II was just 1.8% for battle deaths, and 2.5% if you include deaths from other causes. Yet abortion has taken the lives of fully 30% of Gen X, Y and Z together.
. . . No other generation in history has ever suffered that kind of toll. It is in fact 12 to 16 times more than all the fatalities inflicted on our GI’s in World War II.
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