Bydio

First, the fun, from the Advice Goddess Blog:

The U.S. abortion rate remains among the highest of all industrialized nations—more than twice as high, for example, as the Netherlands (nine per 1,000 women of reproductive age).

In the parenthesis above, also in bold [my emphasis], we’re talking about abortion.  Now this isn’t an abortion rant, so take it easy.  This is just about the words used in those parenthesis.  If you look at that, basically everything after “1,000″ should be gone.  I mean c’mon!  Using “women” in there is pointless, because men don’t have abortions.  But then to add “of reproductive age”?!  What the fuck?  What other women would have abortions?  Where are the statistics for abortion rates in non-reproductive age groups?  You gotta be fucking kidding me.

Now, the birthrates.

From the same article that I quoted above, she’s basically talking about how hung up on sex are the people in the U.S.  And we are, no doubt.  But from JihadWatch.org, we find out that American birthrates (2.2/couple) are higher than European birthrates (averaging less than 2 per couple), and Muslim birthrates are monstrous compared to us (averaging between 6 and 8 children per couple).

Fertility rates in the Muslim world look like this: Niger (7.46 children per woman), Mali (7.42), Somalia (6.76), Afghanistan (6.69), and Yemen (6.58). The Palestinian woman in Gaza who – at age 64 – just became the world’s oldest suicide bomber was the mother of nine and (at last count) the grandmother of 41.

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Compared to the rest of the industrialized world, the United States is experiencing a veritable population explosion – with a birth rate of 2.11, just about replacement level. From there, it’s demographic winter as far as the eye can see: Canada (1.5), Germany (1.3), Russia and Italy (1.2) and not-so-sunny Spain (1.1). The latter three nations could cease to exist, as they are currently constituted, within the next 50 years.

So this gets me to thinking, and you know that’s just downright scary, but sexual repression seems to cause higher birthrates.  Without the taboos, and with all the social baggage, sex may become less enticing.

Of course there are other ways to look at it.  From Western career women who don’t want to have children, to much more availability of birth control compared to Muslim women, a lot can be said for why our birthrates are low while Muslim birthrates are high.

But I still say the social structure plus the lack of taboo has an effect.

This does not mean I want the prudes to win.  Just the opposite.  But I am with Cartman on this one.

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