Roe v. Wade, (1973 - 2022)

It's been almost 50 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States generally protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion. Since that time the birth rate has gone from 16 per 1000 people in 1973 to 12 in 2022. That is a 25% decline (see chart). 

On Friday June 24, 2022 the U.S. Supreme Court unexpectantly reversed Roe v. Wade, declaring that the constitutional right to abortion, upheld for nearly a half century, no longer exists.

The U.S. birth rate has fallen precipitously since the 2007, with no signs of reversing. In 2019, there were around 3.75 million live births in the United States. Half of all states and nearly three quarters of all counties experienced more deaths than births in their populations between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021, according to U.S. Census Bureau. For the past century, deaths followed an overall trend of gradual, linear increase each year. Then, between 2019 and 2020 following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, deaths in the United States increased by 19%.

Add to that an aging population and it is no surprise that the government is concerned about future population growth. A large number of people reaching retirement age needs to have an equal number of young workers to maintain the economy. Otherwise, the government will no longer be able to provide social programs for older Americans. It is very possible that by reversing Roe v. Wade our government is indirectly trying to increase the population or at least slow the declining birth rate. A humorous tweet this week from Bette Midler suggested that they should ban Viagra, (but that wouldn't increase the birth rate).

The government has been playing a game of social and economic manipulation for years. Just recently there have been news reports that the Internal Revenue Service, Railroad Retirement Board and other federal agencies have been stocking up on thousands of rounds of ammunition. IRS special agents are allowed to carry weapons, but it is unclear if the IRS is stockpiling guns and ammunition as part of a grander scheme to hoard weapons and get them away from Americans amid the recent mass shootings.