"Could abortion be an underlying cause for the disproportionate labor market that, as recent news reports have said, will cause Social Security to be defunct by 2040?"

No.

Sure, it's all because of abortion. And cosmic rays, which are manufactured by evil aliens on the planet Sty-ron.

Sheesh.

I know Rod Serling has been dead for many years, so that can't be him I see in the distance.

40 million aborted from society creates a vacuum. Or is it a vacuum that creates 40 million abortions?

LOL! WOW, what a stretch.

If there is an argument and you have nothing to say about it that will help your side, bring up abortion! haha, that's funny.

I have to agree with those who posted before me!

How this LTE writer summises that abortion has any direct or indirect relationship to the huge influx of illegal people into the USA is beyond me.

Those cosmic rays mentioned by Tony seem to have affected this LTE writer!

Shalom

40 million never born taxpayers does support the estimate of SS failing by 2040. 40 million new taxpayers would help to push that number back. Maybe that's a reason the politicians are so ga-ga over Mexican labor?

Or, instead of saying Mexican labor the proper phrase should have been "amnesty for millions".

Just so I'm clear, Ms. Underwood's claim that a possible reason for illegal immigrants coming into the US is because there are less people than there would be had abortion been legal? So basically, they're coming here because there's room? If we had 330 million people instead of 290 million, we wouldn't have this problem? Why didn't I think of that -- oh, because it's insane, that's why.

Actually, Howie G, that number would be more than the 40 million abortions. It would also be the potential children of the children that were aborted. Just for comparison's sake, I'd say that you could at least double that number.

While I don't know that the argument put forth by Ms. Underwood holds any water, I am sure that abortion has had a profound effect on many areas in our society. Just today, I heard that about 1/3 of all newborn American citizens were from Mexican parents who are in the US. I'm not sure if they said legal or illegal.

I don't have statistics to back it up but I'd imagine from my own observation that the percentage of those having abortions in the United States are skewed more heavily towards blacks and whites than Mexicans. And when you take that into account, I'm sure that it will have some effect on racial statistics in the future.

I think it's hard to deny that 40 million children being aborted rather than born has had an effect on our country. The only argument would be whether that effect is a postive one or a negative one.

Of course with 40 million more people the situation would different--you'd have to be an idiot to think otherwise. But the situation would probably be worse, since abortions skew toward populations that use more resources and pay less taxes (more mouths, less wallets).

.....these abortions. Take in to account the circumstances as well. What kind of life would they lead, would they become productive members of our society? There are a lot of variables once way or the other. I dont really think the idea holds much merrit. Considering the circumstances behind most abortions, rape..too young...unwed...ill...something wrong with the pregnancy or child: I just dont think that the chances are good, that had these children been born, that a mojority of them would have grown up without being provided for with tax dollars. I also don't think that a great majority of children who are brought up by "the system" turn out to be people who support themselves. I dont say this to be ugly, I say it because on general, most of the children I grew up with that grew up in poor homes grew up to be adults with little to no education that are still living on the system.