Is America Destined for "Demographic Winter?"

An excerpt from Doug Phillips' Blog:

Should nations view children as a blessing or as a burden during economic hard times? What about families?

Within one day of taking office, the president gave his answer to the first question. He would use the anniversary of Roe v. Wade to lift the ban on overseas abortion funding. The message: in tough economic times, it is important for U.S. taxpayer dollars to be spent preventing more life from coming into this world.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was even more creative in her baby-banning agenda. In a national television interview, she made it clear that one important way to stimulate the economy was for people to stop having babies.

Pelosi defended her plan to make tax-payer subsidized child prevention an important part of the $825 billion economic stimulus package, explaining that “contraception will reduce the cost to the states and to the federal government...no apologies. No. We have to deal with the consequences of the downturn in our economy.”

Translation: We must control the population because children are a burden on the economy—especially children from lower class families. The less of these children, the less money the government will have to spend on schools and health care.

Don Feder states:
"In 30 years, worldwide, birthrates have fallen by more than 50%. In 1979, the average woman on this planet had 6 children. Today, the average is 2.9 children, and falling. . . . demographers tell us that with a birthrate of 1.3, everything else being equal, a nation will lose half of its population every 45 years."

This is an important issue that Americans need to address, and hopefully take steps to encourage families to have children and welcome them into their households.
If you would like to watch an interesting and very sobering video on this topic, here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM0YO1uSZ_8

I guess what I'm trying to say is, we need to be very careful who we listen to and what philosophy we might inadvertently "buy into." For instance, this week a leading environmentalist in Great Britain stated, "Couples who have more than two children are putting an ‘irresponsible’ burden on the environment..." And he continues, "I think we will work our way towards a position that says having more than two children is irresponsible." Therefore, he is calling for the state to limit families to two children. So, we have certain politicians and economists as well as radical environmentalists advocating laws to prohibit families having more than 2 children.

As Christians, we need to look to God's view of children and family and be willing to take a stand and stop this movement of humanistic thought against children. If we don't, who will? And if we don't, the consequences will be catastrophic.