Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: demographics, Catholic values, abortion, culture, birth rate, Nancy Pelosi, anti-natalism, stimulus package, Rand corporation, economic crisis, economic contraction, human capital, Wall Street Journal, Malthus
A Swedish public health expert has spilled the beans. He has researched the value of a baby to the Swedish economy. He wasn’t trying to stop abortion or threaten the contraceptive mentality. He wasn’t fighting the anti-natalist notion that every baby born is a bottomless drain on the economy and a blow to the environment. If that had been the case, if he’d have been arguing that we should stop killing babies, he’d be mopping university library floors instead of studying there.
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Another Eve
(The link above is to an audio of this short story. If you click on it, you will open a new window [which takes a little time to load] that does not have the text of the story. If you were to want both, you would have to open up another window of the blog and load the page where the text is.)
Father Miguel sat quietly, his divine office forgotten on his lap, and gazed sadly around the garden. The Copa del Oro had been stripped again. The thing had gotten at the roses, too. It had taken one perfect bite out of four, no, five, buds on the fragrant red Mr. Lincoln, just one malicious bite each to leave the bud to bloom deformed. And then it had eaten the miniature Fairy almost to the earth. This is why Father Miguel sat so quietly with a sling shot in his hand and a pile of rocks at the ready. He felt a perfect fool.
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