This is Definitely Not a Boom

Continuing in the same line of thought as a previous post, I found today's msnbc.com's article pretty interesting. It said that there was a record number of births in 2007-- something over 4 million babies-- and that this shouldn't be considered a "baby boom." Well, duh. What is interesting to me, though, is the following sentence:

About 4,315,000 children were born in 2007, about 15,000 more births than the peak time of the baby boom in 1957.

I find this interesting because it has taken the US fifty years (??!!?) to reach the same level of births as back then. Let's look at this in simple numbers:


In 1957, the US population was nearing 170 million people. (4 million births)

In 2007, the US population just passed 303 million poeople. (50 years later, 4 million births)

And, in other news, about 2.6 million people died in 2007....

Does anyone find this slightly concerning... or, at least, is anyone else thinking "only 4 million?" I'd love to hear your thoughts.

This is Still Legal

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I'm going to Teotihuacan on Saturday-- that is, the place where, just prior to the Aztecs, indian tribes sacrificed human beings to the sun. They did this (that is, cut out people's hearts and place those still-beating hearts into boxes) because it was believed that such murderous killing influenced the rising of the sun. Oooops.

Today, it is believed that by sacrificing a woman who lives in her mother's womb, that killing that baby girl will somehow influence her mother's being woman.



All of the unborn babies in this video can be legally killed in the United States.

... oops.



In other news, Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood) has this to say about my posting:





(you can catch the entire interview here-- or as a transcript!)


Well, that sounds... eugenic. Very Hitler-esque.




Ok, but Ms. Sanger, do you believe infidelity is a sin?

SANGER: Well, I'm not going to specify what I think is a sin. I stated what I think is the worst sin.

Yes, but then you asked me to say what-- and I said what and ah-- you refuse to answer me?

SANGER: I don't know about infidelity, that has many personalities to it-- and what a person's own belief is-- you can't, I couldn't generalize on any of those things as being sins.

Murder is a sin...

SANGER: Well, I naturally think murder, whether it's a sin or not, is a terrible act.


Well, that's interesting....



And many people agree with Ms. Sanger...


... like Barack Obama-- who "will not yield" to pro-life concerns, and will continue in the "tradition established by Margaret Sanger and people like her."


UPDATE: Over at the blog "Heirs in Hope," there is an amazing piece that concerns this issue. I post it here because it hits on the oft-forgotten point that those who are in the throes of abortion and its culture are often in a lot of pain-- and need our prayers and help.