China Realizes—Maybe Too Late—That Vital Societies Need Babies

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John Stonestreet, Radio Host and President of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview.

Recently, a communist party official admitted that China’s war on fertility, decades of propaganda and even violence to keep Chinese women from having more than one child, has worked too well. 

Since relaxing the “one-child policy” in 2015, China’s fertility rate has only risen to about 1.5 births per woman, which is still far below the 2.1 births necessary “to meet labor demand and keep the vitality of the economy and society.”

For forty years, Beijing taught its people that the fewer kids they have, the better off they would be.  Apparently, the people continue to believe it.

China, however, is not alone. As I recently noted on BreakPoint, the U.S. may be headed for a COVID baby-bust, further lowering our already-low fertility rate. In fact, every single county in the Western world is failing right now to secure their futures.

Because the future of any nation depends on babies.

Copyright 2020 by the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Reprinted from BreakPoint.org with permission.

Featured Photo Credit: Five Stars by Slices of Light, on Flickr.

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Pro-Abortion U.S. Reps. Want to Repeal Pro-Life Hyde Amendment

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Pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood and the Guttmacher Institute are teaming up with liberal members of Congress in calling for the repeal of the pro-life Hyde Amendment in 2021.

The Hyde Amendment is a provision in the federal budget that prevents Americans from being forced to fund abortion procedures with their tax dollars. It contains exceptions for cases of rape or incest or when the mother’s life or physical health are in jeopardy.

Every year since 1976 Congress has attached some version of the Hyde Amendment to the federal budget to prevent taxpayer-funded abortion.

But Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D – Connecticut), the newly elected chair of the House Appropriations Committee in Congress, says the Hyde Amendment will not appear on next year’s budget in the U.S. House.

Several pro-abortion groups — including Planned Parenthood and Guttmacher Institute — have issued statements supporting removal of the pro-life Hyde Amendment from the federal budget.

Here’s the truth:

Public opinion polling has shown again and again that Americans don’t want to pay for abortions with their tax dollars.

For years the Hyde Amendment was viewed as a reasonable compromise between pro-life and pro-abortion congressmen, but it’s clear that pro-abortion groups no longer see it that way.

Without the Hyde Amendment, even if you don’t support abortion and you don’t have an abortion, you could still be forced to pay for an abortion with your taxes.

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