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Gen Z is missing nearly a third of its generation, and no one in power calls it what it is.

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Abortion didn’t remain “rare.” It became routine, industrialized, and celebrated.

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The empty classrooms aren’t a mystery. They’re the receipts.

BRIEFING

Grant here. In roughly the past five decades, abortion has shifted from something whispered about in the shadows to something practically celebrated in the mainstream. The left frames this shift as progress, but the data tells a different story. As a result, a full third of an entire generation was erased before it ever drew breath. Let’s break it down.

For years, abortion has been absorbed into Western culture as if it were just another lifestyle choice. Women are encouraged to “own their bodies,” redefine autonomy, and treat a procedure once viewed as a last resort like a routine errand. Normalization became the goal, and frankly, normalization succeeded. But when something this widespread becomes this accepted, the impact shows up in the numbers. People may avoid saying it out loud, but the demographic data strips all the flowery language away.

Between 1997 and 2011, almost twenty million pregnancies ended before delivery. This isn't a social trend, folks; it's basically generational deletion. You see it in declining birth rates, shrinking classrooms, and a workforce that is thinning out year after year.

The global picture is just as stark. Nearly one in three pregnancies worldwide ends in abortion. Wealthy nations call it empowerment. Poorer nations call it routine. But while the terminology changes, the outcome doesn't.

Fewer children. Fewer families. Fewer futures.

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Of course, the shift didn’t begin with Allen. It began with Roe v. Wade. From there, it swept across the West. By the 1990s, life was no longer sacred but symbolic — a battleground for autonomy. Abortion, once a tragic last resort, became a badge of modern freedom: marketed, subsidized, and passionately defended. What once whispered in back alleys now screamed from billboards. The sanctity of life yielded to the supremacy of choice.

And the trend shows no sign of slowing. In America, abortion rates are rising again, proof that the fall of Roe ended nothing. The borders of legality shift, but the outcome never does. The states that restrict it drive women to those that expand it; the killing merely changes zip codes. And all this unfolds as the nation’s population ages, its birth rate plunges, and its replacement rate collapses. The country is greying, yet instead of nurturing new life, it’s eliminating it. A nation that won’t create life is already courting death.

Many will object — what about cases of rape, incest, or danger to the mother’s life? These are awful, gut-wrenching realities. But they remain the exception, not the norm. They are vanishingly rare, a fraction of a fraction. The overwhelming majority of abortions are not born of horror but of habit, not of desperation but of decision. And that makes them all the more tragic.

The language around abortion has always worn a deceptive disguise — sterile in tone, surgical in intent, and ruthlessly effective. We speak of “reproductive rights,” as if death were a democratic process. We call it “healthcare,” as though the illness lies in the existence of the child. Bureaucrats talk of “access” and “autonomy,” but never of aftermath — the depression, the guilt, the silence that follows when the celebration fades. Even the word fetus — Latin for “offspring” — has been repurposed to erase the human beneath the term, reducing life to a clump of cells for semantic comfort. This is not the language of liberty, but the dialect of denial.

Dark humor creeps in because despair alone isn’t enough to process the absurdity. America, a nation obsessed with youth and vitality, is sabotaging its future while pretending to secure it. Silicon Valley dreams of eternal life through data, while maternity wards fall silent. The same culture that fights infertility with science destroys fertility with ideology. Corporations offer to pay for abortions as a “benefit,” not out of kindness but cost-effectiveness. After all, it’s far cheaper to end a pregnancy than to honor the person who carries it.

And yet, there’s still time — if only just. People have found renewal before, in the dust left by their own delusions. The same country that ended slavery and segregation can still wake from this suicidal sleepwalk. But awakening demands honesty, and honesty demands horror. We must face what we’ve allowed to happen. Not only with shame, but with the will to repent.

We’ve lost 20 million people who will never laugh, create, love, or lead. Twenty million futures extinguished, mostly by design. That’s not healthcare. That’s not freedom. That’s elimination, streamlined and sold as self-determination.

Of course, all of this lines up with the population crisis unfolding worldwide and especially in the United States.

If you want proof that America is running out of future generations, just look at the birth rates. The latest CDC data shows the U.S. fertility rate has dropped below 1.6. That is far under the replacement level of 2.1, and it confirms what everyone already senses: the country is aging out faster than it is bringing new life in.

Combine that with an abortion culture operating at full speed, and you have a demographic trajectory that points in one direction: decline.

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The fertility rate in the U.S. dropped to an all-time low in 2024 with fewer than 1.6 children being born per woman, federal data released Thursday shows.

The U.S. was once among only a few developed countries with a rate that ensured each generation had enough children to replace itself — about 2.1 kids per woman. But it has been sliding in America for close to two decades as more women are waiting longer to have children or never taking that step at all.

The new statistic is on par with fertility rates in western European countries, according to World Bank data.

Alarmed by recent drops, the Trump administration has taken steps to increase falling birth rates, like issuing an executive order in February meant to expand access to and reduce costs of in vitro fertilization and backing the idea of "baby bonuses" that might encourage more couples to have kids.

White House staff secretary Will Scharf remarked to reporters at the time that in vitro treatments "have become unaffordable for many Americans or been unaffordable for many Americans." Health insurance companies aren't required to cover IVF treatments, which can cost tens of thousands of dollars.

But there's no reason to be alarmed, according to Leslie Root, a University of Colorado Boulder researcher focused on fertility and population policy.

DEBRIEFING

Look, the data here leaves no room for interpretation. America is not simply dealing with a cultural shift; it's dealing with the aftermath of eliminating twenty million members of a single generation. When a society normalizes abortion at the scale we have, the demographic consequences are not just simply theoretical. They're visible in every corner of life.

Shrinking classrooms are not a mystery. An aging workforce is not a coincidence. A collapsing birth rate is not an accident. A country simply cannot delete a third of its potential children and expect to grow. It cannot maintain a stable future when its fertility rate sits below 1.6. And lastly, it cannot solve labor shortages, economic stagnation, or cultural fragmentation when entire age groups are missing.

The fact is that nations with declining populations face slower economies, weaker social structures, and political systems that strain under the weight of an older base with fewer young families to balance it.

The issue here isn't about politics or slogans... it's about math. Once a nation chooses a path that produces fewer children than it needs to sustain itself, decline is not just a possibility; it's the guaranteed outcome. And sadly, America is already living inside that outcome.

NOW YOU KNOW

The emptiest part of Gen Z isn’t online. It’s the twenty million who never made it here.