1,010,586 abortions between 1970 and 1987 in Canada. Another 1,811,707 reported abortions in Canada between 1988 and 2005. I say "reported" abortions because when the Supreme court struck down the last of the legal restrictions against abortion(1988) they also disallowed manditory reporting. In the last decade there has been less volunteer reporting to Stats Canada from Abortion clinics. Still there is about 100,000 abortions in Canada a year. That means the potentual loss of 100,000 educated workers coming into the economy each year. Canada lost about 3,000,000 tax payers from 1970 to 2005 and eventually will be loseing about a 1,000,000 a decade.
Regardless of where you stand on the abortion issue you can't look at our country's declining birth rates while ignoring the big white elephant in the room.
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