Submitted by Dennis Howard, Mar 21, 2008 13:30

Alicia Colon deserves a Pulitzer for her outstanding reportage on the abortion issue and its impact on both the Black community and on America at large. Her latest piece on the RHAPP bill is an example.

Since 1970, when New York joined the abortion boom, some 14,000,000 black babies have been aborted. That's 4 times the total African-American population of New York State -- a horrific number by any standard -- but the complicity of many black politicians in this holocaust staggers the mind. Basically, they made a Faustian bargain with the pro-abortion left that that would exact a high price from their own community.

If those 14,000,000 black children had lived, about half would be of voting age today. Given African American voting patterns, that would have meant a landslide victory for Al Gore in 2000, John Kerry in 2004, and surely Barack Obama today. The difference between victory and defeat is not Florida or Ohio but the war against the young that has cut down two generations before they could take a breath. Democrats who support abortion on demand are shooting themselves in the foot.

The abortion toll is now approaching 50 million, based on my research over the last doezen years. The economic impact of that is just as horrendous as the political impact on the Black community. In 1997, I did an analysis of the economic impact of abortion by state (www.movementforabetteramerica.org) that clearly demonstrated the difference between economic growth in low abortion states compared to high abortion states based on recovery from the '90-'91 recession.

By 1995, the low abortion states were 14 pts ahead of where they were before the recession started while the high abortion states were still down 2 per cent from where they started 5 years before -- based on job growth. In other words, the low abortion states had no recession at all, while the high abortion states still hadn't begun to recover. No wonder liberal politicians keep complaining about the economy!

What these people forget is that families with children are the primary source of all supply and demand. That's where all the future consumers, producers and leaders come from. Indeed, the GDP loss to date from those 50 million babies we've aborted has already reach $30 TRILLION dollars -- a number that will continue to grow even if we stopped all abortions tomorrow.

Unfortunately, there is no way to bring back the missing. It will take at least a generation before we can begin to fully recover even if all abortions stopped tomorrow.

Bills like RHAPP have to be understood in terms of their long term impact on all of us. A $400 abortion may seem like a good deal to some young guy facing 21 years of child support, but it is we, the people -- and the generation under 40 most of all -- who will pay for the biggest part of the bill in lower incomes, shrinking markets, higher taxes and reduced producitivity.

Governemt is currently subsdizing Planned Parenthood to the tune of $305,000,000 a year -- which is about $1200 for every abortion PPF performs. What we're doing is subsidizing our demise as a nation, and the heaviest burden of all will fall on communities that are already downtrodden and oppressed.

It is time for all American to raise a great hue and cry about this disaster.

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