Today is the 43rd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s diabolical Roe v. Wade ruling. We’d like to present this different way of looking at this most somber of memorials.
From 1990 and back to 1973, 12,700,000 female babies were aborted. Had they not been aborted, they would have on average each given birth themselves by now to their own child. These “never were conceived” children would have today been part of the total U.S. population, so they must be counted as missing.
These are called “ghost” numbers, or ghost abortions — people who can never be considered because their mothers were not allowed to be born. But in any accounting of the total effects of abortion, of course they must be included.
So when you add the total number of Americans directly killed by abortion since 1973 — almost 58 million — to the total who are not here because of abortion indirectly, the impact on the American population is 70 million fewer Americans because of abortion.
Now take that number and plug it into an economic variable called the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita. That number takes the total worth of a country and divides it by the total population to place a dollar equivalent on each person: How much economic activity does each person produce and consume?
It includes everything — houses, cars, appliances, movies, manufacturing, everything — every single dollar in the economy. When you divide the total wealth of America by its current population, you get a GDP per capita of about $54,000 — which means that the total contribution of each American to the overall economy is calculated by the United States government at $54,000.
Now when you marry up that number with the total number of Americans not in the economy owing to abortion — which is not just 58 million, but rather 70 million — the economic impact is near beyond comprehension.
70 million people times $54,000 is just a couple hundred billion dollars shy of $4 trillion.
$4 trillion missing from the US economy because of abortion. Obviously we aren’t boiling this diabolical evil down to just money, but in all the horrible ways abortion affects the culture, this is one that gets little attention.