[Mpls] As one reaps, so shall one sow...

[wmmarks]

George Janssen wrote:

>Surely this is all related to the Roe effect and the polarization of America's electorate. The flight of families with children--who tend to be politically conservative--renders cities even more liberal, and the liberals who remain behind don't reproduce, helping push the next generation to the right.
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Actually, availability of other forms of birth control (pills, medical 
procedures, women deciding not to have children) served to open women's 
minds to other goals. Before Roe we could not buy a house without a 
cosigner, have our own credit cards, get into college and grad school 
then get hired afterwards, or buy a car with a loan. It was a lot more 
difficult to do other than marry and reproduce.  About a zillion things 
contribute to lowering the birth rate. Then we did a big campaign called 
Zero Population Growth in which women voluntarily agreed to have no more 
than two children to replicate themselves and their significant others, 
but not increase the population. At the same time, of course, we have a 
human population on this planet that is above the 5 billion mark. While 
the planet can still produce enough food to feed us (though that is 
changing), we humans are too busy arguing about who owns what piece of 
land, or resource, to spend time and money coordinating food delivery to 
feed us all.
There are so many levels on which it makes sense to limit the number of 
humans voluntarily, but the studies I have seen most frequently are 
those which correlate rise in income with a drop in the number of 
children per couple.
I would conclude, then, that abortion is one of hundreds of reasons why 
the birth rate is lower.  Many American women and their partners are 
apparently sowing common sense and we are all reaping a slower rate of 
population growth as a result.

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