Absence of abortion effect

It's not often that I'm forced to admit I was wrong, but logic must always bow before evidence. Adhering to this basic rule would save many people, especially intellectuals, from much public embarrassment. The author of "Freakonomics" has established a lucrative literary career from exploiting the human tendency to forget this truth, demonstrating how what everyone "knows" to be the case is frequently wrong due to their application of reason to a foundation of incomplete or inaccurate data.

As with its digital counterpart, human logic is only as good as its input. Garbage in, garbage out.

Vox Day

Mark Steyn has made a habit of writing on the depopulation of Europe via contraceptives and abortion. I would be curious to know the actual live birth rates there over the last thirty years. It could very well be that the decline of European society is not so much an artifact of a declining European population, but more of a rapidly expanding migration from the Middle East. While the US will slowly, but surely become a Latin American nation, probably of Third World stature, Europe looks far more likely to become part of Islam.

Of course, whether it is due to depopulation or appeasement, the root problem is the same: social liberalism.