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The Romanian population has fallen by over 4 million inhabitants since the December 1989 Revolution, from 23 million to around 19 million.
Andreea Diaconescu writing in Ziare.com said only in 1940 when the USSR, Hungary and Bulgaria took parts of Romania was there a bigger drop in the population.
That's not a good analogy as that drop took place in the course of one disastrous summer, not over 36 years.
In 1990 alone there were 992,265 legal abortions in Romania: 3,158 abortions for every 1,000 live births. Only in 2010 did the figure dip below 500 per 1,000 for the first time.It it is said 22 million babies were aborted in the fifty years between 1967 and 2017. That's more than the entire current population of the country and abortion is still used as a method of contraception.
Abortion and contraception are swiftly reducing the population of not just Romania but the developed world. It's not the fault of feminism as the same thing is happening in Iran.
Abortion, declining birth rates and mass immigration from the Third World are Europe's biggest problems, followed by terrorism, loss of freedom, children growing up in broken homes and the dying countryside.
Abortion, declining birth rates and mass immigration from the Third World are Europe's biggest problems, followed by terrorism, loss of freedom, children growing up in broken homes and the dying countryside.
David Goldman (Spengler in Asia Times) asked what does it matter who takes over Germany, since Germans aren't having children? He said that they might as well leave the country to their dogs.
The question applies to Romania too and every other ethnic or former ethnic state except Israel, where they are seized of the problem and started having lots of children for patriotic reasons.
Abortion is not a cause, it is an effect. The cause, in the happiest case, is the financial impossibility to raise children. In the darker case it is the lack of desire to have children, nihilism, egoism, disorientation, defeatism, lack of maturity, shirking responsibility, and atrophy of love and lust for life. I don't understand conservatives banning abortion. It is like banning guns, but the desire to kill stays unaddressed.
ReplyDelete19 million is a fiction. Millions have left more or less for good but keep and renew their IDs and vote, and have no income in Romania, pay no taxes or social security. Others are more difficult to categorize: they periodically spend intervals of various lengths in the West, from 3 to 6 months, to sometimes a year or more, then come back for comparable periods.
ReplyDeleteIt would be more realistic to count those who have an economic activity, draw a salary or pension, or study or are registered as unemployed.