We hear nightly on the news about the pending global meltdown. Sometimes it’s worth looking back to see where the problem originated so we can ensure that, once dealt with, we avoid similar traps. CHP Canada often links abortion to a source of the problems visited on the world today. Is there a real connection? Could protection for innocent human life have changed where we are today, both in Canada and worldwide? What would happen if the 500+ million people, who have died by abortion worldwide, were part of today’s workforce? What about the 2 million Canadians missing from the workforce? When we look at the effect in Canada then we can simply compound this to consider the ramifications of world-wide abortion. When I think back 40 years, the normal expectation was for Dad to go out to work while Mum stayed home and raised the children. She may or may not have a part-time job when all the children were in school. But, her salary was not assumed as needed to keep the home going. Mum’s salary was ‘gravy’. Dad’s salary was taken into account when they applied for credit. To borrow money, the payments could not be more than ¼ of his salary... one week was for the mortgage and three weeks were to cover the rest of the household expenses. As women increasingly entered the workforce and fought for their salaries to be fully included as family income, our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was positively affected. More workers meant a higher standard of living. But the cold realities of life were:

- Women bear children and this necessitates additional expenses to the business, both during the pregnancy and after the child is born in lost hours of work.

- Women enjoy working at a job that is not continuous, monotonous routine. We cleaned house yesterday and today it needs cleaning again. We did laundry yesterday and today the laundry pile is sufficient for more laundry. We made meals today and tomorrow the meals will need to be made to feed our families again. All this monotony and no financial gain!

- This can’t compare to going to work, completing today’s tasks, and having new tasks tomorrow, all the while collecting a pay cheque at the end of the week. Although, eventually most jobs fall into routine.

- I still remember the sentence, “I’m just a housewife”. (“Lowly me, I spend my time cooking, cleaning and raising children.”)

If only we weren’t tied to reproduction then we could also be fulfilled in the workforce. And so, with access to abortion, for the first time, women were able to compete for jobs that were traditionally male dominated. Society only needed only to convince us that the child a woman carries was not a person. While that has been done on a conscious level to many women unfortunately, in our hearts, women still know the truth. But the damage caused to women is for another day; see “Silent No More” for help with this. The impact on our economy was initially a positive one. Canada flourished with women also in the workforce creating employment. But, at what cost? Our birth rate declined... and declined, until Canada dropped below replacement level. The initial influx of women to the workforce leveled off. We hit a plateau for growth. We began to rely on immigration to increase our population to allow growth in the workforce. This solution has produced challenges of its own.

- With the decline in birthrate in all Western countries, we needed to go outside of our western worldview of freedom and equality and give ever increasing immigration to world views that do not support our traditional equalities and freedoms... but that’s for another day. See our Immigration Policy for more help with understanding this.

- With immigrant families seeking to reunite, we brought in large numbers of older people, which put a strain on our government pension plans as older immigrants don’t spend a working lifetime giving into the plan.

- Children are great consumers. They grow and regularly need new clothes, shoes, toys etc. When they are active then they are very hard on clothes, further boosting the consumer need to move the economy. With less children being born live, we are faced with the ‘baby boomer bubble’ with focus turning from a dwindling market to an increasing market.... seniors. But, seniors consume less per capita. Even McDonalds has recognized the changing demographics in Canada by removing their child focused play rooms and replacing them with senior focused sitting areas.

- Young people in the past filled the need for casual labour; helping with farming jobs, etc. Today, farmers are unable to fill these positions so they bring in labour from other countries. This earned income, while ensuring the products make it to the stores, is money earned in Canada but spent in other countries, further decreasing our financial position.

- I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the economic cost of roughly $500 per abortion procedure to taxpayers, not including the physical and mental costs of post-abortive women. That’s an ‘upfront’ cost of $50 million annually.

The yearly loss of over 100,000 Canadian babies by abortion, with readily available birth control, has; caused our birthrate to drop below replacement; increased immigration of near retirees to reunite immigrant families; created a dwindling need for children’s articles; and the need to bring in labour, which does not have a positive effect on our GDP. Combined, these have had a catastrophic effect on our economy, for which our children and grandchildren will spend their lives paying the price. There are many factors that affect our economic climate but the serious effects of abortion have been felt, and will continue to be felt economically, for generations to come. This fact is indisputable, but will we make the needed changes to preserve our freedom and equalities? Only time will tell but.... with increased understanding of the far reaching economic effects of abortion, we can hope and pray that “The sun will come out tomorrow” for Canadian and worldwide economies.