Incredible Drive-By Story on American Baby Boom

Incredible Drive-By Story on American Baby Boom

Incredible Drive-By Story on American Baby Boom

RUSH: Have you seen this story? More babies are being born in the United States, unlike the trend in Europe. The birth rate is up for all groups, but the increase for Hispanics is biggest. "Bucking the trend in many other wealthy industrialized nations, the United States," this is my newscaster voice, "seems to be experiencing a baby boomlet, reporting the largest number of children born in 45 years. Experts believe there is a mix of reasons: a decline in contraceptive use," meaning not as many people using condoms, "a drop in access to abortion." Do you believe this? We're producing a lot of babies. Our birth rate, replacement levels, were suffering. You factor in abortion and our replacement birth rates were suffering, and they had been for awhile. We were barely reproducing enough little crumb crunchers to keep the population steady, particularly with all these illegals flooding the country. So now, that good news has to be turned into bad news, and the bad news is, "Well, yeah, but there's a drop in access to abortion. I mean, that explains it." How sick! How absolutely sick! This is the Associated Press.

Oh, there are two other reasons why the baby boomlet is happening, according to the experts: poor education and poverty. So having kids, if you're poorly educated or in poverty, why, that's bad, and, of course, minorities and the poor, hardest hit here, not to mention women. "There are cultural reasons as well. Hispanics as a group have higher fertility rates -- about 40 percent higher than the US overall. And experts say Americans, especially those in Middle America, view children more favorably than people in many other Westernized countries." What a bunch of... just say this and chalk it up to experts, and we're supposed to sit here and go, "Oh, okay." Americans, especially those in Middle America -- you know what the Drive-Bys think of you people in Middle America, you're not much higher on the scale than those hayseed hicks in the South. You're just like 'em except you don't sound like you're in the South so you're at least a little bit more tolerable. You don't sound like these people from Mississippi and New Orleans and Alabama. Iowans don't sound that way, and Missourians -- well, some of them sound that way, but not very many. So you're a little bit more tolerable, but you people in Middle of America, you view children more favorably than people in many other Westernized countries. What is this "view children more favorably"?

"Nan Marie Astone, associate professor of population, family and reproductive health at Johns Hopkins University, 'Americans like children. We are the only people who respond to prosperity by saying, "Let's have another kid."' We're the only people who respond to prosperity by saying let's have another kid? It didn't work with me, hee-hee. Prosperity takes many different forms than having children for me. What, Snerdley? Yeah, we are prosperous. We're prosperous in the middle of a recession. We're prosperous. We're having all these kids. We're very prosperous, and yet there's a recession descending.

"Demographers say it is too soon to know if the sudden increase in births is the start of a trend. 'We have to wait and see. For now, I would call it a noticeable blip,' said Brady Hamilton, a statistician." This upsets them all to hell, and what upsets them all to hell here is their claim that abortion access is more difficult, and that's why we're having too many damn kids. If you ever doubted the pro-aborts and how sick they are in terms of moving their cause, this story goes a long way to helping understand that. "The 2006 fertility rate of 2.1 children is the highest level since 1971. ... Fertility rates often rise among immigrants who leave their homelands for a better life. For example, the rate among Mexican-born women in the US is 3.2, but the overall rate for Mexico is just 2.4, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. 'They're more optimistic about their future here,'" said a Pew Center demographer. All right, well, that's that.