Abortion and Population

[Thumpalumpacus]

I was going to try and explain it again, but the original post was very clear. For example, There are countries like China, Italy, Spain and India whose population is or soon will be declining. … In India, the number of children peaked more than a decade ago and is now falling.

Right, but that is more likely the result of the inverse relationship between wealth and family size rather than abortion. Even when China was enforcing its One-Child policy with the brutal practice of forcible abortions, its population still grew.

So if anyone wants to argue that abortion reduces net population growth, they'll need better evidence.

Population decline is happening in many countries. The bolded part of the quote I gave from the UN also makes this clear.

Sure, but not as a result of abortion, imo.

I am not going to disagree here. I didn’t make that point. You are arguing against someone else.

Here's the exchange:

Uh, maybe I used the wrong word. I'm suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which too many people get abortions (perhaps because it's too accepted) and this jeopardizes human survival.

The opening of your post referring to his:

I started this thread (and I will try to keep up on it) because Ahriman is right in her post below. And it’s not a hypothetical scenario. It’s already happening.

So while you write that you aren't arguing that point, you are most certainly, by your own admission, agreeing with it. You can't eat your cake and have it, too.

We are shitting up the only planet we know we an survive on, and that is largely because our population requires enormous food supplies, energy supplies, and so on. But abortion is no way to address that.

Again, we agree.

Only a fool wouldn't.

Now, do you have any evidence to support your agreement with this point? Does any evidence demonstrate that abortion is at the root of these population-growth slowdowns/reversals? Because that is the claim you agreed with above.