COMMENTARY

Disposable life is convenient, but is it prudent and a strategically sound national plan?

The RU 46 pill allows for inconvenient and unwanted births primarily in teenage users who

neither wanted nor intended to create life as a result of unplanned pregnancies. The RU 486

pill, also known as the “morning after” pill has been used by over 500,000 women since its

approval by the Food and Drug Administration in 2000. Women’s reproductive “rights” have

been a significant political social and moral issue since 1972.

Joseph Stalin once said of Capitalism “Give them enough rope and they will hang

themselves”, I suspect the same might be said of the future of our country demographically.

A nation’s strength lies in its ability to produce products, services and innovation from

people. Few will argue that we don’t have enough people on the planet or enough people to

allow immigration to fulfill any void of population in the United States. The questions I ask

myself is “ Does the median age and culture of our nation have any significance or are the

shifting sands of religious beliefs, cultural values and moral imperatives significant?”

If abortion in any form has allowed for 37 million citizens to be annihilated, not the

mention their future children and offspring and the population void that represents requiring

those lives to be filled by immigrating people from other lands and cultures, what becomes of

the remains of our citizenry, culture and foundational beliefs in religion, culture and societal

values that represent ‘America’?

Demographics show an inverted pyramid of age differentiators’ that affect the balance of

working productive people verses aging, less productive individuals. Simply stated, the lack
of younger individuals to replace older working individuals and consumers that sustain the

70 percent of consumption that drives this nation’s growth and global economic activity

becomes a significant issue. Supporting aging populations is costly and puts a financial strain

on the younger generation that succeeds it.

Someone has to produce goods and someone has to consume them. That is how the world

goes round. Up until now The U.S. has been the consuming nation and the rest of the world

has been the providers. As a result of lower birth rates, aging populations in Western

civilizations and global aging demographics, age and the ability to sustain productivity has

become a great concern. Nations such as India and China have populations that are triple our

size have the age demographics needed to fulfill global output and capacity. America has

traded its independence and future citizens in for a more convenient form of consumption.

The strength of any country is its people, the issue becomes of how we treat our own

citizens and can we afford to educate them, feed them, provide jobs for them and prosper

them to fulfill the needs of global industry and production.

It seems we get all of the resulting values of other nationalities without an identity.

Imported values, customs, belief systems and cultures become the identity of America. This

confused sense of identity creates an inherent conflict in the sense of solidarity and freedom

that is replace with merchant survival, but one of little identity.

The pill is not solely responsible for the results of a disposable society with no identity or

social norms. We have always been a ‘salad bar’ of variety, not necessarily a melting pot of

cohesion. But what of a national identity? I think we are confused and determining our

values, culture and direction will continue to shift, change and transform into a

heterogeneous representation of minorities and majorities.

 The face and character of America is changing and the pill gives us the push towards that

demographic end. Perhaps that is a good thing and change was due, we will know soon

enough, by 2030 the numbers begin to shift in significant ways, only time will tell how they

define our country’s future.