A basic level economics course teaches that the number of buyers, or population, is a key component of the aggregate demand of a national economy.  Strong aggregate demand is necessary to the health and stability of a nation’s economy.  If a nation encounters a shortage in the number of buyers, the aggregate demand-curve shrinks and the potential for that economy to grow and expand is restricted.  Often cited causes for a shortage in the number of buyers is population loss sustained by war, epidemic, or natural disaster—this population loss causes long term economic problems.  I will demonstrate that Abortion is not only a significant source of population loss, but has also severely damaged our economy.

The first step is to figure out the population loss due to abortion in America.  Within pro-life circles we often hear a number of around 50 million aborted.  This number is a significant undercount.  A large reason for this undercount is because this total includes only those abortions after Roe v. Wade (abortion did not just magically begin in 1973).  How many were aborted before the Roe decision?  According to the very arguments presented by pro-abortion activists in favor of the Roe decision, there were as many as 1.2 million abortions annually in the 1950s and 1960s.[1]

A true analysis of the population loss due to abortion would also require a consideration of not just those aborted, but also the children (and grandchildren) that would have been born to those aborted.  To figure the total American population loss due to abortion I start my analysis in 1950, roughly at the beginning of the Baby Boom.  I take the cumulative number of abortions each year and appropriately control for the respective annual birth rates, infant mortality rates, and general mortality rates.  The verdict, as of 2010, America has sustained a population loss of at least 117 million persons due to abortion.  This is roughly a third of our population.

Based on macroeconomics, a shortage of 117 million persons would cause significant economic problems.  To create an estimate of this negative economic impact in real dollars, I took each annual population loss total due to abortion and applied the “per capita” individual federal income and social insurance taxes paid for each respective year.  Now some will raise the objection that “not everyone pays income taxes.”  However I used a “per capita” statistic to control for exactly this.  When totaled, as of 2010, the federal government has sustained a loss of $12.3 trillion in revenue due to abortion.

I have graphed our annual federal debt in comparison to my model of our annual federal revenue loss due to abortion:

The federal revenue loss due to abortion mirrors our federal debt.  A national economy cannot be sustained when a third of the population is missing.  Abortion is simply the worst macroeconomic policy a nation could adopt.  Population is as oil is to an engine, without motor-oil the engine locks up.  The economic models are not working because “the experts” assumed natural population growth sustaining aggregate demand.

We as a nation (and a global economy) are just beginning to experience the economic consequences of abortion.   As Lincoln spoke, “…we have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.”

What do we do?  We repent.  As Wilberforce said, we stop blaming others and recognize, “We are all guilty.”

In repentance we turn to God and we also set our compass towards one-hundred percent obedience.  We stop digging a deeper hole.  There can be no other option than the abolition of abortion in America.

Regulation is not abolition.  Shutting down one organization does not cut it.  Pursuing legislation that violates the Supremacy Clause does not make any sense.  Reversing “Roe” to let the states decide rather than individuals is just another variation of “pro-choice.”

After forty years of wandering it is time for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that abolishes abortion in America.  If our Congress will not propose such an amendment, then our states must exercise their Article V powers.

I fear that it is not only the fate of unborn millions at stake, but also the very fate of our union.

Mark Olson is a former “gay rights” community organizer who is now a pro-life political consultant with grassroots experience working on various state and local campaigns.  Mark has a Bachelors degree in Political Science and is currently a graduate student in Political Science at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

More information about his research can be found at Mark’s website: http://www.NewClapham.com

Mark can be contacted by email at: info@newclapham.com