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<p><strong>What Do 40 Million Lost Lives Mean?</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The simple response to the abortion advocates&#8217; case is that most children inevitably grow into adults. They work and pay taxes, or otherwise spend, save, invest, and innovate. Economists attest that even before these children reach adulthood, their very be-longing to a large and growing population spurs economic growth. The following four points give an overview of why abortion does not help, and in fact may be hurting, the U.S. economy.</span> <span class="post-teaser-more">&nbsp;<a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=452" title="Permanent Link: Why Abortion in America is a Social Problem" rel="bookmark">Read more...</a> <i>(426 words, estimated 1:42  mins reading time)</i></span></p>

<div class="post-teaser-block">This is a preview of <q>Why Abortion in America is a Social Problem</q>. <a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=452" title="Permanent Link: Why Abortion in America is a Social Problem" rel="bookmark">Read the full post (426 words, estimated 1:42  mins reading time)</a></div>{"id":452,"date":"2013-03-17T20:23:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T00:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=452"},"modified":"2013-08-15T16:30:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T20:30:17","slug":"452","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"Why Abortion in America is a Social Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Do 40 Million Lost Lives Mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The simple response to the abortion advocates&#8217; case is that most children inevitably grow into adults. They work and pay taxes, or otherwise spend, save, invest, and innovate. Economists attest that even before these children reach adulthood, their very be-longing to a large and growing population spurs economic growth. The following four points give an overview of why abortion does not help, and in fact may be hurting, the U.S. economy.<\/span> <span class=\"post-teaser-more\">&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=452\" title=\"Permanent Link: Why Abortion in America is a Social Problem\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more...<\/a> <i>(426 words, estimated 1:42  mins reading time)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"post-teaser-block\">This is a preview of <q>Why Abortion in America is a Social Problem<\/q>. <a href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=452\" title=\"Permanent Link: Why Abortion in America is a Social Problem\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read the full post (426 words, estimated 1:42  mins reading time)<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[68,69],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why Abortion in America is a Social Problem - Hearts United For Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=452\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Abortion in America is a Social Problem - Hearts United For Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; What Do 40 Million Lost Lives Mean? 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