More Bad News for the Pro-Abort Crowd

Very interesting editorial in the WSJ today. In examining why liberals can't seem to win elections, the editorial points out that the pool of potential liberal voters has been and continues to be shrinking because liberals don't like to have children.

Simply put, liberals have a big baby problem: They're not having enough of them, they haven't for a long time, and their pool of potential new voters is suffering as a result. According to the 2004 General Social Survey, if you picked 100 unrelated politically liberal adults at random, you would find that they had, between them, 147 children. If you picked 100 conservatives, you would find 208 kids. That's a "fertility gap" of 41%. Given that about 80% of people with an identifiable party preference grow up to vote the same way as their parents, this gap translates into lots more little Republicans than little Democrats to vote in future elections. Over the past 30 years this gap has not been below 20%--explaining, to a large extent, the current ineffectiveness of liberal youth voter campaigns today.

This concept translates even more neatly into the pro-life versus pro-abortion debate. You see, it is inevitable that someday we will be a pro-life country again. While there will certainly be more battles before the end (and, unfortunately, many more abortions), victory is a foregone conclusion. Why?

It's simple actually -- because pro-lifers have children and pro-aborts kill theirs. The children of pro-lifers (likely) grow up to be pro-life as well and will vote accordingly (as well as run for public office, pass legislation and litigate abortion issues). On the other hand, pro-aborts children will never do any of those things because they were never born. (In fact, the great irony of the pro-abort crowd is that they are only here because their parents were pro-life.)

As an illustration, an attorney I knew used to work for Banned Parenthood. I asked her once how many people she knew who had more than six children. She tried avoiding the question but I pressed her on it and she admitted that she did not know one person with more than six children. Without expeding any effort, right now I can think of twelve families I know who have six or more kids (ok, 6 of them are family members so it's kind of easy for me -- but, regardless!, -- my point is still valid. :-)

And the point is (yes, there is a point), pro-lifers will continue to be fruitful and multiply and pro-aborts will (unfortunately) continue to kill their unborn children. Eventually, we will have more pro-lifers than pro-aborts and will overturn and outlaw abortion.