The Life Expectancy Lie
In 2023, about 3.6 million babies were born in the USA. But just over 1 million fetuses were aborted that year. That means around 22% of American babies conceived were killed in the womb. If we included these aborted children in the national life expectancy average, life expectancy in the USA would drop from 79 years to 62.
In other words, Western life expectancy statistics are artificially inflated. We hide the mass baby genocide taking place under the guise of abortion. In reality, almost 1-in-4.5 people should expect to die in their mother’s womb.
A life expectancy of 62 years is still better than, say, Nigeria’s at about 54 years. Nigeria still has massive child deaths, but few abortions. In Nigeria, abortions are illegal unless necessary to save the mother’s life.
This mortal condition does not apply to women living in the USA. American women are having abortions because having a baby affects their lifestyle. It’s about money. I get it. If a woman feels she can’t afford to raise a child, she may even “vote” against pro-life policies out of rancor.
What Pro Life activists probably don’t understand is that women’s decision to have an abortion has a lot to do with the financial outlook. Housing being the primary concern. A woman can’t start a family if she can’t afford to live in a house.
Especially in the colder Europe, housing is a prerequisite to supporting newborn life. Without a house, your children would freeze to death.
Psychologically speaking, I believe most women living in the West feel too much pressure being put on them by society. Namely, the barrier-to-entry of becoming a mother is so great, many women abandon the idea upfront. These barriers include women getting a job, and getting a degree, and getting promotions.
One should perhaps be a bit forgiving of such career women. They’ve been lied to. Careers for women were supposed to empower and enrich them. It didn’t. Career women aren’t inherently evil, nor are they anti-motherhood. They have simply given up on the idea of motherhood, because it doesn’t appear attainable to them.
And yes, many such women, who can neither find a good job nor a rich enough husband, turn into frustrated feminists. Surprisingly, the majority of them are leftist—highly educated—women.
It’s not that highly educated women have somehow priced themselves out of the dating market. It’s rather so that highly educated women tend to have majored in fields that don’t gross high incomes, and the men who do gross high incomes have little interest in such women.
The solution may be a little help from the government.
If governments allocated more tax funds towards rebuilding and restoring religious communities—so that people would become more inclined to help each other out in terms of building housing, like the Amish do—we might solve both problems.
A religious community that works together toward building family housing is a community with high birth rates. Today, the Amish have the highest birthrate of any ethnic group in the world, growing at an annual rate of around 7%, twice that of Nigeria.