The Childlessness Lament by Candice Watters on 09/20/2006 at 12:00 PM

After 33 years of legalized abortion in America, and all the anti-child attitudes that policy has spawned, it's a little surprising to see the increasing concern over childlessness among boomers nearing retirement age.

Afterall, it was the boomers who ushered in the sexual revolution and accompanying culture of abortion to begin with.

And yet, again, for the umpteenth time just this summer the Wall Street Journal has an article about the graying of America and the economic consequences of not having enough workers to pay for the retirements of all those baby-boomers eager to start relaxing. In 1950 there were seven people of working age for every retiree, reports the Journal. Today there are five. "But by 2030," the paper reports, "when the last of the baby boom generation retires, that ratio will fall by nearly one-half, down below 3 to 1."

True to form, the Journal's solution is an economic one: "integration of the world's economies and capital markets." Let the developing world make the goods and exchange them for the assets of the retiring one.

The frustrating thing about this so-called solution is the seeming oversight of what is most responsible for the dwindling number of workers: abortion. If some disease had wiped out 40 million people, we'd talk about it all the time; and how horrible it was and how we all have a duty to fund the research to end the scourge and have more babies to replace those lost to illness. But instead, we continue to limp along under policies that devastate our population, our economy and most importantly, our morality.

It's not just our pocket books that are suffering. It is our very souls.