Abortion devastating Baltimore January 27, 2012
Posted by tantamergo in Abortion, disaster, General Catholic, sadness, scandals, sickness, Society.trackback
That’s what is quoted in this op-ed in the Baltimore Sun. Baltimore is one of many American cities that has experienced a long, painful decline. The city is shrinking. While city leaders try to solve this population implosion by immigration (ha!), Diana Schaub notes that the major reason for this decline is the out of control moral decay in the city, especially the collapse of marriage and the rampant use of abortion:
The decline of marriage, particularly among African-Americans, is all too familiar. Not as well-known is that Maryland has a very high abortion rate (third highest among the states in 2005, the year that the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene stopped collecting abortion statistics). The breakdown by jurisdiction reveals that Baltimore City is driving those deadly numbers, and also that the abortion rate among African-American women is at least triple the white rate.
Even for those in favor of legal abortion, the situation should be dismaying. And it certainly represents what Montesquieu termed “a change of customs.” For comparison: In 1970, Baltimore City abortion rates for single white and black women stood at 7.43 and 10 respectively (the abortion rate is the number of abortions per 1,000 women ages 15-44), with the married women’s rates half that. By 2005, the Baltimore rate was 86.2. The National Abortion Rights Action League, which cites that figure, did not provide the African-American rate, but it would be substantially higher.
Lest one think that poverty accounts for this shift, the poverty rate in Baltimore has remained relatively fixed at around 20 percent for decades. The marriage dearth and the abortion deluge among all races are not attributable to material causes as much as moral causes: young women’s loss of respect for themselves as the bearers of new life and their resulting willingness to treat abortion as a method of contraception.
Cities dying off from abortion and general moral degradation.
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It is difficult not to be insulting about this entry. I remember being horrified years ago when someone suggested war as a method of population control. Certainly, this has to be the opposite — a city is declining because women of child bearing age don’t respect themselves? I suggest that abortion is a choice because they do respect themselves — and the children they already have.
It is amazing to me that with all the information today about fetal stem cells and the power to regenerate injured and broken bodies, that those who profess to love life so much, refuse to recognize that the products of abortion — fetal stem cells — can remain alive in another body where it can restore self-respect, and restore lives to active, productive roles. Maybe the answer to any perceived dilemma is to reconfigure cities to promote the best, most wholesome and healthy populations instead of judging personal decisions of women and having the audacity to quantify that into percentages.
I have had four fetal stemcell transplants, given to me by women who chose to help people like me, and I carry them as proudly as I did my own children. My fetal babies will live as long as I do. What a gift!
I’m at a loss for words. Your response makes my stomach turn. I am truly convinced that it will take much prayer and pennance by the faithful in order to open hearts and minds such as yours.
I thought Margaret Sanger was dead!
Wow. So only “active, productive” lives are worthy of respect?
The simple fact of the matter is that Baltimore is aborting and contracepting itself out of existence. It is hardly the only place that is undergoing such a shattering decline. Most of Europe, Japan, numerous muslim countries – all face a bleak demographic winter due to declining birth rates. These are not “wholesome and healthy” populations, these are populations doomed to severe sociological and political problems, declining (if not collapsing) economies, and general misery. Underpopulation was one of the prime reasons for the collapse of both the Western and Eastern Roman Empires – a collapse in the West fueled in part by abortion – and you embrace it as “wholesome.”
You have no idea if the women aborting have any children, or in what percentage. You making a blind assertion based on your ideological/personal preference. That you have perhaps benefited from the death of children to prolong or improve your life is, to me, beyond frightening, it’s the creation of a Frankenstein’s monster, cobbling together a human life from the remains of others. Those children did not choose to die. They were murdered, often for nothing more than convenience. And you are trying to assign some heroism to their deaths because you have personally benefited? I don’t know how you look in the mirror, but I know I sure as heck wouldn’t want you involved in any “acute care” patient orders.
Woody is right. This comment is so utilitarian and cut off from basic moral principles that further discussion is pointless. I am certain you would be perfectly happy in Huxley’s
Brave New World
.
No doubt, Woody.
I am having a flashback from the early 80s song by Blue Oyster Cult, “Joan Crawford Has Risen from the Grave.”
In this case substitue Sanger.
Catechist Kevin