The Roe Effect

[Pale RIder]

I wasn't quite sure where to put this..here seemed as good a place as any...

The Empty Cradle Will Rock
How abortion is costing the Democrats voters--literally.

BY LARRY L. EASTLAND
Monday, June 28, 2004 12:01 a.m. EDT

More than 40 million legal abortions have been performed and documented in the 30 years since the U.S. Supreme Court declared abortion legal. The debate remains focused on the legality and morality of abortion. What's largely ignored is a factual analysis of the political consequences of 40 million abortions. Consider:

• There were 12,274,368 in the Voting Age Population of 205,815,000 missing from the 2000 presidential election, because of abortions from 1973-82.

• In this year's election, there will be 18,336,576 in the Voting Age Population missing because of abortions between 1972 and 1986.

• In the 2008 election, 24,408,960 in the Voting Age Population will be missing because of abortions between 1973-90.

These numbers will not change. They are based on individual choices made--aggregated nationally--as long as 30 years ago. Look inside these numbers at where the political impact is felt most. Do Democrats realize that millions of Missing Voters--due to the abortion policies they advocate--gave George W. Bush the margin of victory in 2000?

The number of abortions accumulate in size and political impact as the years roll along. Like an avalanche that picks up speed, mass, and power as it thunders down a mountain, the number of Missing Voters from abortion changes the landscape of politics. The absence of the missing voters may not be noticed, but that doesn't mean its political impact disappears. As seen during a famine, what no longer exists becomes as relevant as what does.

Let's begin with the obvious: Children born in any given year arrive at voting age in 18 years; conversely, children not born in a given year are "Missing Voters" 18 years later. Permanently so, unless someone discovers a way to give birth to a teenager in a nine-month gestation period. This table gives the number of Missing Voters from abortion and election years affected:

The rest of the article can be found here HERE

I thought this whole idea was interesting if for nothing else than the "walking into a door" quality of the potential consequences for the left.

[prettyredhead]

Why must people keep bringing up this very PERSONAL topic.......sigh.....
Ok, lets ask. What is being done to house and clothe, and place older, adoptable children into homes? Huh? When ppl spout off about the evils of abortion, then they do not want to adress any alternative for unwanted kids. Kids already here, who have no parents. No one is lining up to adopt these kids, after all, over 5 is "too old, too damaged" to adopt. Right?
Until all needy kids are taken care of I dont want to hear about fetuses inside of peoples bodies. Dont care. Dont want to hear about what they "might have been" there are millions of foster kids whose parents "chose life" what the hell do they have? Rejection by couples seeking to adopt. I wont fuel their silly assed baby lust.

[PatrickHenry]

PRH, you missed the essence of Pale Rider's post. He is not promoting anything, just asking an interesting question. And I do find it curiously captivating. What kind of politics "might have been" with eighteen million votes more in the youthful age bracket? Might the alternative parties be reaching critical mass and sweeping away the lies of the DemoPublicans?

Good post, Pale Rider.

[Pale RIder]

PH...the part of this idea that really interests me is not so much who they would have voted for...or even if they ever would have registered to vote at all...

Their very presence in this country would have had an effect on the distribution of electoral votes...a conservative population that is growing at a faster rate than a liberal population can't help but have an effect on the politics of the electoral college...

[PatrickHenry]

Originally posted by Pale RIder,
Their very presence in this country would have had an effect on the distribution of electoral votes...a conservative population that is growing at a faster rate than a liberal population can't help but have an effect on the politics of the electoral college...

??I guess I didn't get the reference. Do you mean that the youngsters(that never were) would have been less conservative as a group than us old farts? But instead the aging conservatives group are growing at a faster rate because of the abortion holocaust?? Is that what you meant?

[Pale RIder]

PH...the population is rising...and the distribution of the population has a direct relationship on the distribution of electoral votes...if the conservative population is rising faster, then they can not help but swing the electoral votes in their direction...and because this a geometrical effect, at some point it will not be happening slowly slowly over a period of decades...it will be visible happening in the span of an electoral cycle...

It doesn't matter who those absent voters would have voted for...the present voters are becoming more conservative because we tend to carry on our familie's political tradition and because the conservative population is growing faster..

[PatrickHenry]

Oh, I get it. It's the lib kids that are getting "eliminated." The con kids are the borns and living, thus the conservative demographic grows, huh? Interesting...

[Pooeypants]

This is very much an issues thing, I think I'll move it to Politics.

[Pale RIder]

No sweat. I wasn't sure where to put it. I figured that if the mods wanted it somewhere else, it would end up there. Thanks.