{"id":204362,"date":"2019-06-19T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=204362"},"modified":"2019-06-18T13:30:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T18:30:36","slug":"pro-life-replies-abortion-prevent-overpopulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-replies-abortion-prevent-overpopulation\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH Pro-Life Replies: Is abortion necessary to prevent overpopulation?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The latest video in Live Action\u2019s \u201cPro-Life Replies\u201d<\/a> series was released today in response to the claim, “Abortion will stop overpopulation.” Very recently, the news media has been sounding the alarm about our world’s population crisis — but not in the way you might expect. Recent headlines have noted that the current population crisis is not one of having too many<\/em> people, but too few<\/em>. Countries are not achieving replacement level to support their aging populations or maintain their workforces, and this could lead to dire consequences and severe economic instability.<\/p>\n

Despite this, many abortion advocates hold to the idea that the world is suffering not from a demographic winter, but from overpopulation — and they claim abortion is necessary to avert a crisis. But, as the video below asks, “Even if it were true, would aborting large numbers of people be a moral way to respond?” Steven Mosher of the Population Research Institute addresses this argument in the video below:<\/p>\n