July 2008
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
4h 17m
English
Content preview from The Age Curve: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Storm
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The Effect of Legalized Abortion on Generation X
An argument can be made that Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, has had a significant impact on U.S. demography—specifically by reducing the size of Generation X. The statistics are huge and tantalizing.
Since January 22, 1973—the date of the decision—about 45 million legal abortions have been recorded in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this thirty-one-year period saw approximately 1.5 million abortions performed per year—nearly four thousand per day. Comparing these statistics to four million live births in a robust year, it would appear that we terminate about 27 percent of pregnancies.
In recent years, ...