The Movement for a Better America

The Abortion Toll

June 15, 2009:  51,568,110

By Dennis M. Howard

As a nation sows, so shall it reap.

For the last 50 years, America has been sowing its oats like a good time Charlie who thought that the law of gravity no longer applied to him. We have long boasted of being "the world's greatest superpower" and having "the world's greatest economy," but these days such puffery has an empty ring.

There are so many potential disasters on the horizon that our confidence has been shaken like nothing since the Crash of 1929. In fact, the economy in 1929 was less than 1 per cent of the size of our economy today. We are reaping the whirlwind -- morally, spiritually, economically and politically.

Are our troubles as yet on a par with Old Testament catastrophes like Sodom and Gomorrah, the Deluge, or the ten plagues of Egypt? If not, we're certainly getting there.

The Egyptians dealt with rivers turning to blood . . . with frogs, gnats, flies, anthrax, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, and the death of their firstborn. We've managed to skip the frogs, gnats and flies, but today's slaughter of the unborn surpasses anything in ancient Egypt.

We've had 9/11, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, suicide bombers, pirates, illegal immigration, a worldwide financial collapse, and declining populations throughout the Western industrial world. It's enough to make ancient Egypt seem like the "good old days."

The Egyptians were smarter than we are. They relented and let Moses and his people go. We still haven't gotten the message. We're facing down ogres as fearsome as the seven-headed Beast of the Apocalypse sent to warn the churches . . . yet we still try to ignore the handwriting on the wall.

You know corruption runs deep when words lose their meaning. We've gone beyond "if it feels good, do it" to "if it sounds good, do it."  Wordsmiths like Frank Luntz, author of "Words that Work," have built careers teaching politicians how to sweet-talk their constituencies. Success is when the public swallows the smooth-sounding lie hook, line, and sinker.

"Tolerance, diversity, and understanding" have replaced "faith, hope and charity" even on the website of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The ancient outrage of the prophets has been drowned by media-induced mediocrity.

Jesus, by contrast, was notably intolerant. "If anyone offend one of these little ones who believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depths of the sea." (Matt. 18:6.)

Contrary to His smiley new reputation, Jesus didn't think much of pedophiles, abortionists, or Pharisees, whom He compared to whitened sepulchers full of rottenness within. And He certainly didn't wait until after Election Day to denounce them.

Meanwhile, we've had "the great election" in which more than a billion dollars was spent persuading us to elect pro-abortion politicians based, not on principle, but on hope. Only God and Obama know where all the money came from, and they're not spilling the beans to U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald.

A quarter billion smackers came in through prepaid credit cards that can't be traced, yet they came from somewhere. The abortion industry was in there big time to say thanks for the $336 million in federal largesse that Planned Parenthood takes in every year . . . and to get in line for the billions they have been promised as part of the latest "stimulus" proposal.

What other corporation gets a "recovery package" that is 9 times bigger than their total sales? Proportionately, it's more than General Motors got so far in the big automobile bailout.

How many new jobs will be created by this outpouring of generosity to the nation's abortion industry? We'd rather know how many more babies it will kill in the next generation. What can one say of a country in which killing babies is seen as a growth industry?

This demographic erosion is one of the major forces behind the erosion of our whole economy. If the 100 million kids we've dumped since 1960 were still around, total employment would be 64 million higher right now. How much more moral reengineering of this kind can we take and still survive?

The gall of the pro-abortion ideologues is beyond belief.

George Soros gave huge gobs of money through various channels, much of it untraceable, but he isn't bragging publicly about it. That's because he has probably made it all back and then some from the speculative trading for which he is famous.

The man who once nearly broke the Bank of England had to have a field day in the rise and fall of energy prices, the collapse of our banking system, and the 45% drop in the worldwide price of stocks. The folks who left their money with Bernie Madoff just bet on the wrong horse.

In short the whirlwind has arrived.

Barack Obama has pledged to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, a bill that will go far beyond Roe v. Wade toward making America the abortion capital of the world. He has also announced plans to put trillions more on the national credit card, payable by your children and grandchildren and mine.

By Dennis M. Howard

With the United States and the world facing the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, everyone is asking: "How did we get here? And how do we solve it?"

That was three years before the market top in 2000, but few people were interested in listening to a messenger bearing bad news, however earthshaking. At the time, Wall Street was booming. Even Alan Greenspan, who coined the term "irrational exuberance," only raised it as a question, not a warning or a prediction.

We found that the 51.4 million surgical abortions since 1970 have cost the U.S. an astonishing $35.6 trillion dollars. However, if you include all the babies lost to IUDs, RU-486, sterilization and abortifacients, the number climbs to over $70 trillion!

Far too many people look on abortion and aggressive use of contraception as some kind of free lunch. You pay your $400, the deed is done, and that's it. Out of sight, out of mind.

Solving this crisis requires short and long term measures. Yes, we need to arrest the immediate crisis in our markets, but we need to do so without sliding down the slippery slope to government control of our whole economy. We are doing just that.

But the most important change of all is recognizing that families are the fundamental social and economic unit of society for the simple, but profound reason that they are the source of all supply and demand. The handwriting is on the wall. If we don't heed it, this message could become the epitaph of a once great civilization: "As the family goes, so goes the nation."

This column has focused national attention on the enormous toll taken by abortion on the nation's economy since 1970. It has made the economic impact of abortion a red hot story. And now Dennis Howard is carrying the message to radio talk shows all over the country. This effort is a key element in our 2009 Campaign for Life. He is also available for interviews and speaking events on this topic.

To read on, go to "Can America Survive the Abortion Boom?"