So what kind of an economic impact does the loss of 60 million consumers make? There were just over 170 million tax units in the US in 2015. That means that if we had not been aborting our babies there would be approximately 18% more tax payers. Conservatively that’s a one trillion dollar loss every 3-5 years depending on the number of abortions each year. Now while there are a lot of factors that play into how big the loss of revenue is each year one thing is clear morality impacts money and much of our national debt would not exist if 60 million lives did. Choice comes with a cost and today we are feeling the financial loss of abortion. Not only does abortion adversely impact the federal tax revenue but it has created a growing parity between the old and the young, which is really what is at the heart of the demographic challenges that face Medicare and Social Security. One fascinating figure is that when the peak of the baby boom generation reaches retirement age, the number of abortions since the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision will equal the number of births in the baby boom. “If only one-third of those who have been aborted were available to start work on their 18th birthday,” speculated USA Today, “the demise of Social Security would be put off for decades.” It is estimated that largely because of abortion that by the year 2030 the ratio of workers to Social Security beneficiaries will be reduced to a 2-to-1 ration. Two workers will be supporting one retiree compared to the 42 workers supporting each retiree when the program first began in the 1930s. What are the real causes for our economic slowdown; the experts keep blaming it on good things like more efficient oil and gas production that has created a glut in energy supplies. But what if the experts are living in denial about the real causes of the economic slowdown, what if the real problem is a crisis in consumer demand driven by aggressive pro-abortion policies in both the United States and China. This year the U.S. population reached 325 million, but it should be 385 million or 18% higher if not for the 60 million lost to abortion. Can you imagine where the stock market would be with an economy 18% larger? Let’s not forget that the youth market which had driven the American economy since the 1950’s would be 30% bigger. Gen X, Y and Z have borne the brunt of the abortion epidemic, look the Fed can fool around and manipulate interest rates all it wants, but it can’t make up for an 18% to 30% hit on our whole economy. When it comes to finance the Fed is creating a false sense of security, look figures don’t lie, but liars figure. The truth is that if those 60 million babies had not been aborted Gen X, Y and Z would be 30% bigger. This means that we would need millions more teachers, nurses, and doctors and a whole host of other workers just to supply their basic needs. Also new household formation would be running 30% higher, which would translate to an increase in demand for housing and everything that goes with it. Both Wall Street and Main Street would be buzzing with activity. Just to give you a small slice of the picture, US-based consumers bought the most shoes per capita in 2013, according to a report by the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA). Each individual (children are included) bought 7 ½ pairs of shoes. If we scale this back a bit and go with an estimate that the average American buys 5 pairs of shoes every year. 60 million people who will never buy these shoes equals 300,000,000 pairs of shoes in one year that will never be bought or worn. Now let’s consider that apparel and footwear contributed a record $361 billion to the US economy in 2013, a bigger contribution than new cars, alcohol, toys, or practically any other industry. The reality is that businesses would be booming all across America. Part of the economic slump is tied not only to our pro-abortion policies but also that of China. The fact is that China has lost 400 million people to abortion, they too are seeing a marked slowdown in their economy. What’s happening in China compounds what is happening here. Not only has abortion adversely affected the economy but research also suggests that abortion is fast becoming a major national security issue, and not just a matter of personal and public morality. While most politicians and pundits are avoid the topic of abortion, for fear of upsetting someone because we cater more to political correctness that we do to people, it is our abortion policies that now threaten our nations very survival. We talk about the economy and national security in terms of how we can be fixed, but if we never recognize or admit what is creating and driving the problem how are we ever going to fix it? I think it’s time for us to deal with the real devil, our problem is not a money one but a moral one. You can’t diminish the value of one category of human life, the unborn, without diminishing the value of all human life. As Mother Teresa so aptly said: “America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has shown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father’s role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts a child as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience. It has nominally accorded mothers unfettered dominion over the independent lives of their physically dependent sons and daughters. And in granting this unconscionable power, it has exposed many women to unjust and selfish demands from their husbands or other sexual partners. Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being’s entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or a sovereign.” It’s time for us to face the facts, our money mess is the result of our moral mess. There are consequences to choice, and when you chose selfishness, personal convenience and death you will reap destruction. Why have we gone from prosperity to poverty, because as Mother Teresa once said “It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you live as you wish, any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use violence to get what they want. That is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion”

As we approach the 2016 election the number of abortions since abortion was legalized in America through Roe v. Wade will hit 60 million. 60 million is a huge number and one that is almost too large for us to comprehend. I want to help you picture the number 60 million and put abortion practices into perspective. Without a picture, we will never be passionately motivated and moved to put a stop to this genocide.

60 million is 10 times the number of Jews killed by Hitler in the Holocaust during World War II.

60 million is 65 % of Generation Y the Millennial generation and 78 % of the Baby Boomer Generation. It is also 18 million more than the entire population of Generation X. When we put it into perspective one thing is clear abortion has truly created a “lost generation.”

60 million is equal to the entire population of our 87 largest cities from New York all the way down to cities the size of Winston-Salem, N.C.

60 million is 400 times as many people as died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki when the A-Bombs were dropped.

For those who don’t like comparing abortion to the A-Bomb let’s compare it to 9/11 where 3000 innocent lives were taken when terrorists struck America. 60 million abortions are equivalent to 20,000 9/11’s!

What if we compare it to the battle deaths suffered by our military during World War II, where we suffered 291,557 battle deaths in that war? The abortion toll is 200 times that number.

We have aborted 30% of our entire younger generation, Generation X, Y and Z yet we still have pro-abortion politicians who think 60 million abortions are not nearly enough. They regularly defend federal funding for abortion and insist on subsidizing Planned Parenthood to the tune of $550 million a year which is roughly $1600 for every abortion Planned Parenthood performs. In this presidential election, one of the questions that frequently comes up in regard to the two major candidates seeking the presidency is this: “Is this the best America has to choose from?” Let’s face it we have two options, crazy and crooked! But a question that is not being asked today is, “What if we have aborted the next great leader?” Choice always comes with a cost, demanding our rights can have a devastating impact on what is right. What if we are reaping the results of our rights? Let’s face it abortion is far more dangerous than going to war. One of the effects of abortion that our nation is dealing with today, yet few seem to be talking about, is the echo effect. There is a drastic decline in the number of young women in their child-bearing years, a direct consequence of 60 million abortions. The babies aborted 20 to 40 years ago are simply not around to give birth to a new generation. Right now that 20-40 age group are in their peak child-bearing years, but because of abortion 30 million of them, 36% have been lost. This has resulted in 1.4 million reduced births. If there had not been those abortions a generation ago, births in 2014 would have been 35% higher. The problem with aggressive population control measures is that they don’t just impact the immediate, they echo down through the centuries. They not only remove a massive chunk of one generation from being born, but they also eliminate future children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. It results in a steady decline in new births, a trend that could last for years and one that can trigger a population death spiral. The Chinese government has shown it is alert to this problem by abruptly dropping its failed 1-child, forced abortion policy. But China’s new 2 children per family policy is too little too late and will not be enough to offset the huge population drop they will experience as their massive older population dies off. The vital factor China’s Communist planners ignored is the generational or “echo” effect of all those abortions. Why is no one talking about the effect 400 million missing people will have on the Chinese economy. It’s simple statistics when you abort 400 million people, they’re simply not going to be around to birth the next generation. China’s population will shrink and that deficit will echo down the centuries. That’s why it took Europe 250 years to recover from the 50 million people it lost during the famous Black Death in 1347.The bad news is that this is what is happening here, abortion is like the new Black Death. Just in the last 9 years, since 2007, U.S. birth rates have fallen by 1.7% a year. This is the first sign that we have started to feel the echo effect of those 60 million abortions. It will not be long before deaths in the US exceed births and America follows the same path as Europe, a declining population in a declining civilization. Unless, by some miracle, we reverse course we will be entering a new demographic free fall. The colossal mistake made by the U.S. Supreme Court is that they totally ignored the inevitable long-term consequences of Roe v. Wade. Swayed by the population control ideologues, they dismissed the founding fathers’ concern for “securing the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity.” They forgot that “posterity” has everything to do with the American future. America needs to recognize that without healthy families you will not have healthy communities, and without healthy communities, you will not have a healthy country. If the church is going to be a vital force in society then there must be a renewed focus on the family as the most important conduit for traditional Christian values from one generation to the next. But this population crisis is really a crisis within a crisis. The death of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia has left an opening on the bench and if a pro-life constitutional conservative does not succeed Scalia, the future of the country with regard to our long-term population crisis could be in serious trouble. Added to that Justices Stephen Breyer, Anthony Kennedy, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg are all approaching or already over 80. Odds are that their successors will most likely be named by the next president, and could be around for another 25 to 30 years. If we end up with a court that continues to sustain Roe v. Wade it will be fatal to our future. It has been said that whoever wins this presidential election will almost certainly determine whether America has a future at all. So as you vote remember that this is not a time to retreat into apathy or fall victim to what is popular, but to be courageous, to follow your faith and stand for the values our Founders fought and died for. As Thomas Paine wrote, “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated”