Abortion's Decline

From fetuscide's heyday to the present, legalized child sacrifice continues its slow but steady decline. Hopefully the country's ultimate (and consequent) fate will follow a concommitantly inverse course.

Annnnnd hearteningly, there is reason for optimism:

A study published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry has found that women who have abortions are more likely to suffer psychological problems than those who don't.

"Those having an abortion had elevated rates of subsequent mental health problems including depression, anxiety, suicidal behaviors and substance use disorders," reports David Fergusson, a scientist at New Zealand's Christchurch School of Medicine & Health Science.

There is a word that used to be used to describe the "psychological problems" to which this redundant study refers: "guilt." It would seem that conscience is more difficult to eradicate than social libs thought.

Perhaps that's another reason (besides Bushophobia) why lefties are so consistently unhappy - and why they don't get laid as much as the right-wingers they passionately hate (h/t Powerline):

[N]early 20% of women born in the late 1950s are reaching the end of their reproductive lives without having had children. The greatly expanded childless segment of contemporary society, whose members are drawn disproportionately from the feminist and countercultural movements of the 1960s and '70s, will leave no genetic legacy. . . .Nor do single-child families contribute much to future population. The 17.4% of baby boomer women who had only one child account for a mere 7.8% of children born in the next generation. By contrast, nearly a quarter of the children of baby boomers descend from the mere 11% of baby boomer women who had four or more children. These circumstances are leading to the emergence of a new society whose members will disproportionately be descended from parents who rejected the social tendencies that once made childlessness and small families the norm. . . .

Among states that voted for President George W. Bush in 2004, fertility rates are 12% higher than in states that voted for Senator John Kerry.

Less sex, fewer kids, and inexorably, fewer voters. Could abortion on demand have backfired more comprehensively on the selfish, morose feminists who to this day cling to Roe v. Wade like the people of Israel did their golden calf while Moses was atop Mt. Sinai?

Like sand through the hourglass, so that idol is disintegrating. Just this week the SCOTUS ruled unanimously that anti-lifers can't sic blanket, nation-wide RICO injunctions on the defenders of the unborn. Blast that meddlesome First Amendment and its freedom of assembly guarantee!

And - well, you know that saying, "Once is a fluke, twice a coincidence, thrice a trend"? First came South Dakota, and now another state is moving toward outlawing abortion:

A state House committee voted to ban most abortions in Mississippi, which already has some of the strictest abortion laws in the nation.

The bill approved by the House Public Health Committee on Tuesday would allow abortion only to save the pregnant woman's life. It would make no exception in cases of rape or incest. The bill now goes to the full House, which could vote next week, and then to the Senate.

At the risk of gimmick-infringement, Hugh Hewitt's "tick...tick...tick" bird flu catch phrase seems appropo here. Not, of course, that every, or even most, states would fall into this line, but the whole point of overturning Roe is not, nor has it ever been, about "banning abortion," but returning that decision to the states to decide for themselves. Liberals - or perhaps I should say "pro-choicers" for irony's sake - not believing in any concept of "democracy" that they can't rig through the courts, find abhorrent the notion of "We, the People" having the freedom to make "choices" they don't like. Does hypocrisy get more entertaining than this?

How long until we see a bumper sticker that says, "Will the last NARALite out the door please turn out the lights?"