Wednesday, March 7, 2007

on Immigration and Abortion

My seeing a relationship between illegal immigration and abortion started from my reading an interview with Denver's Archbishop Charles Chaput entitled Immigration Schizophrenia. His major point in the interview can be summed up in this quote:
"We want a strong economy and a good standard of living, but we also don't want to do a lot of the unpleasant jobs that help sustain that standard. So we live with a curious kind of schizophrenia. We need the "illegals," but we also want to complain about them."

It was the previous sentence in his interview that caught my attention;
"Some 40 million abortions and billions of contraceptives later, Americans have a work-force shortfall.Why is anyone surprised?"

This idea had never dawned on me before, but it seems that others had come to the same conclusion as the Archbishop. A Republican-led legislative panel in Missouri said as much in their report.

There are jobs that would go undone without the so-called "undocumented workers". With American killing it's unborn,where else will the workers come from?