The Culture of Death--Today's Pied Piper?

If you'll remember in the story The Pied Piper, a Piper came to Hamelin, and, to make a long story short, took all their children as he left. Paul Mirengoff has a post today in Powerline that suggests that the culture of Abortion, the culture of birth control, the era of free love without responsibility, has served as the Left's Pied Piper:

[N]early 20 percent of women born in the late 1950s are reaching the end of their reproductive lives without having had children. The greatly expanded childless segment of contemporary society, whose members are drawn disproportionately from the feminist and countercultural movements of the 1960s and '70s, will leave no genetic legacy. . . .Nor do single-child families contribute much to future population. The 17.4 percent of baby boomer women who had only one child account for a mere 7.8 percent of children born in the next generation. By contrast, nearly a quarter of the children of baby boomers descend from the mere 11 percent of baby boomer women who had four or more children. These circumstances are leading to the emergence of a new society whose members will disproportionately be descended from parents who rejected the social tendencies that once made childlessness and small families the norm. . . .

Among states that voted for President George W. Bush in 2004, fertility rates are 12 percent higher than in states that voted for Sen. John Kerry.

In effect, the "free love without responsibility" crowd has called upon their Pied Piper, with very similar results. They now have fewer and fewer charges with which to carry on their liberal views. Another example of liberals' perpetual inability to link the consequences that come with their "good intentions"?


(Filed under defense of life)