Did the Democrats Forfeit the Election in a Generation of Abortions?

Larry L. Eastland, writing in The Wall Street Journal, gave this warning back in June of 2004. Note these statistics:

[That Republicans have fewer abortions than do Democrats] isn't particularly surprising given the core constituencies of both political parties. But translating percentages into numbers for the purpose of evaluating their impact on politics makes the importance of these numbers real. It's one thing to quote percentages and statistics, it's quite another to look at actual human beings. For example:

• There are 19,748,000 Democrats who are not with us today. (49.37 percent of 40 million).
• There are 13,900,000 Republican who are not with us today. (34.75 percent of 40 million).
• By comparison, then, the Democrats have lost 5,848,000 more voters than the Republicans have.

These Missing Americans--and particularly the millions of Missing Voters--when compounded over time are of enormous political consequence.

I'll say they are! In fact, George W. Bush just won the popular vote this last time by less than four million votes. This can only mean one thing: that the Democrats have none to blame but themselves--themselves and their philosophy of abortion-on-demand-and-without-shame--for their electoral defeat this month.

In the 1970's, when Edmund O. Wilson published his findings on a new science that he called "sociobiology," some commentators made this reckoning from his positions: that feminism, with its anti-male, anti-marriage ideology, was doomed never to keep political prominence for more than a generation--because the next generation of voters, being the children of traditional--and likely larger--families, would vote the feminists and their sympathizers out of office. I suggest that Wilson's detractors of the period now owe him an apology.