According to United Nations and Guttmacher Institute projections, there were approximately 19,087 live births, 34,745 deaths, and 17,510 abortions in Puerto Rico in 2025. The following graph shows the ratio of abortions to birth over time. Abortions caused by in-vitro fertilization procedures are not included. Since fertility per woman in Puerto Rico is now approximately 1.0, the population will be reduced by one half with each generation.
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Abortion
Marcha por la Vida, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2026
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The Science of Fetal Pain
The old, uninformed notions that unborn and newborn babies could not feel pain are refuted by a growing body of scientific evidence. The published scientific literature shows that unborn babies can experience pain at 20 weeks gestational age (20 weeks LMP, since Last Menstrual Period, the fetal age estimate used by most obstetricians) or earlier. There are two common methods used to measure the age of an unborn baby: Probable post-fertilization age (PPF, used by embryologists) measures the age of the unborn baby from the actual date of conception, while gestational age measures from the first day of the mother’s last menstrual period (LMP, approx. two weeks before conception). Medical practitioners have been using the latter method as standard medical practice for decades, and for the purpose of this paper ages refer to gestational age unless otherwise indicated.
Infanticide in Puerto Rico and now New York
WARNING!
This post contains Extremely Graphic Photos of Torture by Abortion!
You have been warned
Proceed at your own risk.
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And typically when the abortion procedure is started we typically know that the fetus is still alive because either we can feel it move as we’re making our initial grasps or if we’re using some ultrasound visualization when we actually see a heartbeat as we’re starting the procedure. It’s not unusual at the start of the procedures that a limb is acquired first and that that limb is brought through the cervix and even out of the vagina prior to disarticulation and prior to anything having been done that would have caused the fetal demise up to that point.
The U.N. has long supported countries that promote sterilization and forced abortion. In fact, UNFPA actually helped to design the Chinese 30-year-old “one child” program,” which has always included forced abortion and sterilization.”
In February 2013, the United Nations Human Rights Council released a report in which the Committee against Torture (CAT) equates LACK of access to abortion as “torture and ill-treatment” of woman. This logic is inverted. As can be seen from the graphics below, it is not the woman who is being tortured.
Puerto Rico has long followed the dictate of the United Nations by ignoring it’s constitution by permitting infanticide of the unborn up to the moment of birth.
More recently New York has followed the example Puerto Rico this by enshrining this practise as a constitutional right.
The implications of this pernicious decision can be seen in the following photos.
WARNING!
Viewer Discretion Advised
You have been warned.
Do not be deceived
into believing
that the “blobs”
they have been killing
were not babies.
CBR Saves Irish Babies
A Critique of Jarvis Thomson’s Violinist Argument for Abortion
A widely quoted 1971 essay by Judith Jarvis Thomson utilizes an ethical dilemma to argue in favor of an alleged right to the kill the unborn. Her analogue of pregnancy is a universe in which a famous violinist is tethered for 9 months to a woman so that his life can be saved by sharing her kidneys. As is the case with many such dilemmas, the result is not an ethical isomorphism but, rather, a false analogy.
That Jarvis Thomson realizes that her arguments are flawed is evidenced by her attempt to buttress them with pseudoscience. Her initial remarks include the philosophically and scientifically erroneous assertion that “A newly fertilized ovum, a newly implanted clump of cells is no more a person than an acorn is an oak tree”.
Since, acorn and oak are both stages of Quercus alba, Thomson confuses the accidental with the substantial. A zygote is not a clump of cells but the initial single cell containing all the complete genetic information pertaining to a new individual. i.e., a zygote is as much a stage of human life as is, say, puberty. Indeed, there are 100,000,000,000,000 (i.e., 1014) atoms in a single cell –more than the number of stars in the Milky Way. In the unborn child, whose murder Thomson seeks to justify, there are more than a trillion such cells. This use of relative and therefore scientifically meaningless terms such as small and clump, is a standard rhetorical trick commonly employed by supporters of abortion to hide the actual complexity of the first stages of life -a complexity equivalent in organizational level to an adult human.
From physics, it can be deduced that at the moment of conception, the states of egg and sperm instantaneously “entangle”, to form new human life. While it lies outside the domain of even the most sophisticated mathematical models to ever fully describe the infinitely more complicated underlying reality, what is scientifically very well established is that full human life begins at the moment of conception [2].
Indeed, Jarvis Thomson’s analogy of unplugging a sick violinist is not even remotely equivalent to aborting a child. Donald DeMarco and Benjamin Wiker [1] identify numerous significant ethical differences including:
- The Nature of the Act
“Unplugging from the violinist is justified by self defense and is not even the direct cause of death–which is a kidney ailment. Abortion, on the other hand directly kills the child. Defense against an aggressor is morally distinct from killing an innocent child.” - The Nature of the Relationship Involved.
“the mother-child is primordial, interpersonal and universally recognized. … A mother is expected to do things for her children that strangers are not expected to do for each other. …The moral question is not about the child’s “right” to occupy the woman’s uterus, but, since the child is already there, whether the woman has the right to expel the child”.
Thus, Jarvis Thomson’s ethical dilemma is not at all equivalent to the moral question of abortion and no conclusion can be drawn from her argument.
Jarvis Thomson’s article includes a second thought experiment which borders upon insanity:
“Suppose you found yourself trapped in a tiny house with a growing child. I mean a very tiny house, and a rapidly growing child–you are already up against the wall of the house and in a few minutes you’ll be crushed to death. The child on the other hand won’t be crushed to death; if nothing is done to stop him from growing he’ll be hurt, but in the end he’ll simply burst open the house and walk out a free man… However innocent the child may be, you do not have to wait passively while it crushes you to death… “
As DeMarco and Wiker [1] note:
“… She abandons existential realities and takes flight in the realm of the phantasmagoric. There, ensconced in that self created world, she makes pronouncements about how people should live and act in our real word. Her view of things proceeds independently from any recognition of an order of either reality or Providence. People-seeds blow into our houses, take root in our carpets, and ask us to be their caretakers. This is science fiction, not the real world. The greatest danger in her thinking, however, is not her approval of abortion, but her portrayal of a world that is frightening in its arbitrariness and utter inhospitality that the only refuge we can take is within our own isolated will…”
Jarvis Thomson’s argument is based on the obvious fallacy that, to prevent the mother from being “crushed to death”, the unborn child should be “stopped”. It is ironic that the notorious pro abortion organization Planned Parenthood/Profamilia selectively crushes unborn babies in order to extract and sell their organs.
That Jarvis Thomson’s scientifically and philosophically flawed pseudo-intellectual opinion piece is still widely disseminated by supporters of induced abortion evidences the weakness of their arguments.
References
- Donald De Marco and Benjamin Wiker, Architects of the Culture of Death, Ignatius Press, 2006
- Jerome Lejeune’s Expert Court Testimony regarding the nature of human embryos
- Calvin Freiburger, Pulling the plug on the violinist argument for abortion
- What’s wrong with Judith Jarvis Thomson’s ‘violinist analogy’ for abortion? LifeTV.net.nz
Puerto Rico – 40 Days for Life
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Comenzando el miércoles, 28 de septiembre de 2011, y hasta el domingo, 6 de noviembre de 2011, la ciudad de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, será sede —junto a muchas otras, a nivel mundial— del mayor evento pro-vida jamás celebrado en la historia: la campaña 40 Días por la Vida.
La campaña 40 Días por la Vida comprende tres elementos básicos, el más visible de estos es la vigilia pacífica que se realizará frente a la clínica de aborto.
Para inscribirse en la vigilia favor de visitar la página oficial
de 40 Días por la Vida
Censorship of Prolife Images
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness…
Isaiah 5:20,
There are some who do not want you to know that in New York, almost 80% of black babies are killed by abortion. This Manhatten billboard was removed after only two days when pro choice activists called it “racist”.
More recently, in Chicago, “pro choice” vandals covered over the following billboard which highlights Obama’s proactive support for abortion and infanticide including the Planned Parenthood’ Foundation’s ongoing genocide by abortion of the black comunity.
Even the following billboard has caused controversy
It is unlikely that the following Polish billboard would be permitted in the US.
when an advertisement using the following image was censored by TV channels for being too graphic
The reality is that, as a portrayal of abortion, it is not graphic enough.
Also of interest:
Puerto Rico Demographic Winter
A continuing strike [4] by students at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) has now closed the institution for more than a month at a cost of over 100 million dollars. Nominally, the strike is about tuition costs, but political interests are clearly exacerbating the situation. At a more fundamental level the strike can be viewed as a minor skirmish in a developing inter-generational competition for resources fueled by demographic collapse.
In 1968, Paul Ehrlich published The Population Bomb predicting that by the year 2000, hundreds of millions would die of starvation due to a population explosion. Indeed, millions of intellectuals believed this simplism and today in Puerto Rico, as elsewhere, the myth of a population explosion is a dominant narrative in schools and universities.
However, the evidence (see [1], [2], [5]) suggests that the earth is rapidly approaching a catastrophic population implosion. The problem today is not overpopulation but underpopulation. For a population to reproduce itself, the fertility rate (as explained in the video in Fig 1. below) must average 2.1 children per woman.
Figure 1. A Necessary Condition for a Stable Population
Many nations already have rates significantly less than the critical replacement level of 2.1 and most are falling rapidly. For example, the population of Russia (fertility 1.36 in 2010) dropped by over 12 million between 1992 and 2008. Japan’s population of 128 million is predicted to fall to about 89 million by 2050 at which point, around 40% of the population will be over 65. By 2050, median age is expected to increase to 55 in Germany and 58 in Italy. With few exceptions (see figure Fig 2), similar gerontological shifts are occurring worldwide.
Such demographic trends are not easily reversed. Russia and China have found to their chargrin, that once fertility rates drop below replacement, not even financial incentives can raise them significantly. In Shanghai, labor shortages have forced the government to relax its draconian population control measures —but to no avail. Many Chinese no longer even want children, especially girls, and rates of abortion and infanticide remain high. Forced abortions continue at a rate of about 35,000 per day under that country’s coercive one-child policy. The strongly anti natalist policies of the United Nations, USAID, International Planned Parenthood, NGO’s such as Amnesty International, Oxfam and Christian Aid, as well as major philanthropists such as George Soros have wrought worldwide cultural changes. These changes including increased rates of abortion, contraception and breakdown of the traditional family have had a devastating effect on fertility and health. The number of common sexually transmitted diseases has increased from essentially 5 to more than 30, effecting up to a quarter of the population in some US cities. Paradoxically, the promotion of condoms has actually increased the rate of HIV and other infections [8]. According to Dr. Edward C. Green (director of the AIDS Prevention Research Project at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies)
“There is a consistent association shown by our best studies, including the U.S.-funded ‘Demographic Health Surveys,’ between greater availability and use of condoms and higher (not lower) HIV-infection rates,”
Countries undergoing demographic decline inevitably suffer severe and prolonged economic downturns. The productive segment of the age spectrum is reduced from above by aging and from below by low birth rates. As the political power of the elderly increases in proportion to their numbers and propensity to vote, spending on health and pensions rises. Rather than risk opposing this trend politicians prefer to play safe by reducing spending on education, defense, and transport. As in the current strike at the UPR, the younger segment of the population naturally reacts to the rising costs of tuition. The outcome is an intergenerational conflict over limited resources.
Puerto Rico Total Fertility Rates
| Year | Total Fertility Rate | Percentage Change | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 4.55 | ||
| 2003 | 2.02 | 142 | |
| 2004 | 1.91 | -5.45% | 147 |
| 2005 | 1.75 | -8.38% | 166 |
| 2006 | 1.75 | 0.00% | 167 |
| 2007 | 1.77 | 1.14% | 158 |
| 2008 | 1.76 | -0.56% | 160 |
| 2009 | 1.71 | -2.84% | 170 |
| 2010 | 1.60 | -3.54% | 176 |
| 2015 | 1.341 | ||
| 2023 | 0.89 |
1CDC Data
The above global trends are already reflected in the demographic profile of Puerto Rico, and projections point to a declining and ageing population. The median age of females has risen steadily reaching 37.9 years in 2009. According to CIA data, the total fertility rate has fallen steadily from 2.02 in 2003 to an estimated 1.65 in 2010, an average change of about -0.04 per year. In 1960 it was 4.55. Puerto Rico’s birthrate now ranks 176 out of a survey of 200 countries in the world. The current fertility level of 1.65 means, roughly speaking, each generation will be 18% smaller than the preceding. Moreover, if the current rate of decrease in fertility is maintained, then by 2020, total fertility will be close to one child per woman -the point at which the population will be reduced by one half in each succeeding generation. The population will then trend towards, what is known in demography as, a 4-2-1 distribution. One adult child will have to provide support for his two parents and four grandparents.
Historically, the decline in fertility in Puerto Rico can be attributed to a population control regime started by USAID and other organizations. In the fifties, Puerto Rico women were the victims of a mass sterilization program[3] masquerading as an anti-poverty campaign. Many were not even informed of the consequences. By 1970 approximately 30% of Puerto Rico’s female population of childbearing age had been sterilized -the highest rate in the world. In the sixties’s Puerto Rico women were used as guinea pigs in the mass testing of unproven contraceptive hormones [6] and by 1963, dozens had died. At that time it was not well known that oral contraceptives, apart from their abortifacient propensity by causing death of the fertilized ovum, also caused blood clots, heart attacks, and pulmonary embolisms, cancer, pelvic inflammatory disease, depression and other conditions (see: (https://thepillkills.org/). In 1973, the demographic decline accelerated as a consequence of the US Supreme Court ruling Roe v. Wade legalizing abortion. If the abortion rate, estimated at .68 in 2001, were reduced in half, the fertility level of Puerto Rico would be above replacement.
Measures of legal abortion in Puerto Rico1
Measures of legal abortion in Puerto Rico1
| Country | Year | No.* | Ratio‡ | Total abortion rate§ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puerto Rico | 1991 | 19,200 | 23 | 0.68 |
1Guttmacher Institute
‡Abortions per 100 known pregnancies.
§The number of abortions that would be experienced by the average woman during her reproductive lifetime, given present age-specific abortion rates.
*Worldwide, about one-fourth of the approximately 180 million pregnancies are terminated by abortion.
The likely economic consequences of this population decline for Puerto Rico are well described by Alexander F. Díaz, in his article Demographic storm [2]. In fact, the decline in fertility is already being experienced in the closing of schools and the diminishing enrollment in post secondary education. The Puerto Rico Department of Education is planning for a reduction of 14,000 students in the public schools in 2010 and at least 40 schools are in danger of closing. The University of Puerto Rico has experienced an estimated 14% drop in enrollment at its main campus in Rio Piedras from 21,561 students in 2000 to 18,653 in 2010. To date, this fall in enrollment has gone largely uncommented. There is a tendency among educators to hide the decline. The UPR Department of English website still proclaims a total enrollment in 2010 of 22,000 students. Many professors are wedded -apparently without the possibility of divorce- to the long discredited narrative of population explosion and continue to teach this in their courses. The decline in enrollment, and concurrent loss of revenues, has contributed to the UPR’s 300 million dollar deficit and is a contributing cause of the current five week student strike. However, unlike in previous strikes, not all of the student’s demands are likely to be met. The government does not have the luxury of robbing the already weakened general economy to bale out an institution which has long been a black hole for money: where tenure is a sinecure; where students regularly take more than 8 years to graduate; where professors of postmodern stripe dedicate time to propagating the discredited ideologies of Freud, Marx, and Freire or the lunacy of gender theory; where many students, ignorant of communist atrocities, proudly wear Che t-shirts and, in violation of Federal laws, participate in brigades to visit Cuba; where student unrest receives the endorsement of dictators such as Castro and Chavez; where Literature professors devote class time to showing triple x movies; where Body Art has supplanted Western Civilization in the curriculum. When a large percentage of the population is unemployed and lacks health care or an adequate pension and revenue is limited, there is no political incentive for a government, with dwindling revenues, to divert additional resources to a dysfunctional institution [7]. Better to adopt a politically expedient solution such as converting the main campus in Rio Piedras into a graduate research facility. With the fall in student numbers, the remaining students could be easily accomodated in other campuses in Puerto Rico or the US.
Prospects for the independence of Puerto Rico are also impacted by current demographic realities. The economic advantages of the relationship with the US are such that there is little imperative for Puerto Ricans to seek full independence and it is unsurprising that at least 40% of the population favor statehood. In fact, during the 2008 elections, the Puerto Rico Independence Party (PIP) lost official recognition obtaining only 2.04% of the vote.
An obvious necessary requisite for independence is a successful and growing economy for only in such an economy would independence be viable. A healthy and expanding economy requires a young and growing population. Demographic and economic decline in Puerto Rico can be expected to translate into an outmigration to the US mainland. Since it is generally young people who leave, a feedback loop is formed leading to a spiral of further decline. Already, almost half of all Puerto Ricans live on the mainland. For this reason, it is clearly in the interests of parties seeking independence for Puerto Rico to encourage population growth and strong stable families.
By embracing “diversity” in a desperate search for members, the Puerto Rico Independence Party, the Refundacion Comunista, the Frente Socialista, and other groups supporting independence, have fallen into the trap of adopting radical feminist agendas which promote abortion and population control, and which have contributed to the breakdown of the traditional family. The antinatalist stance adopted by these organizations is agravating the demographic decline which has already made political independence for Puerto Rico a virtual impossibility. Holding two contradictory beliefs simultaneously is a hallmark of incompetence or psychiatric disorder. Unless the various Puerto Rican pro independence parties cease promoting a “culture of death” and adopt rational policies, in accord with their principal objective, the prospects for Puerto Rican independence would seem, at best, bleak.
Philip Pennance, May 2010
https://pennance.us/
Addendum
Puerto Rico birthrates fell by 3.8 percent in 2009 and marriages dropped by 13.2 percent from 2007 to 2008. According to the 2010 Census, Puerto Rico’s population fell by 2.2 percent from 3,808,610 in 2000 to 3,725,789 in 2010. Since no US state has shown a comparable population decrease, Puerto Rico’s share of more than $400 billion in annual federal aid will be correspondingly reduced with disastrous consequences for the local economy. There are already more than 500,000 non-Puerto Ricans residing on the island Puerto Rican. Unless abortion is halted and the contraceptive mentality changed. Puerto Rican culture remains in serious danger of dissapearing along with any prospects of independence. Meanwhile the perpetual unrest at the UPR continues —added 12/27/2010
References
- Steven Malanga, Our Vanishing Ultimate Resource. Plummeting birthrates threaten prosperity worldwide. Can America buck the trend?, City Journal Vol 20, no. 1.
- Alexander F. Diaz, Demographic storm, Carribean Business, August 14, 2008 | Volume: 36 | No: 32.
- Philip Pennance, The cost of human eggs – Warning to Puerto Rico students.
- La Huelga y El Visitante. Concerning the Strike at the UPR.
- Demographic Winter. Documentary on demographic collapse.
- Mujeres en Puerto Rico utiliazadas como “conejillos de Indias”, Boletin de Vida Humana Internacional 15 Oct 2003.
- All UPR Posts at Pennance.us
- Philip Pennance, Condom Roulette.
Condom Roulette
In 2004 August more than 40 million condoms of the Engabu brand were found to be defective and were recalled to be destroyed. This was after a huge public outcry concerning condom failures which may have exposed many people to HIV/AIDS. Unfortunately, more reliable condoms are not a solution. Independent of the reliability p, repeated use of condoms with a p% failure rate is like unto a game of Russian Roulette with a 100/p chambered revolver —so, for example a 20% failure rate would correspond to Russian Roulette with a five chambered revolver. The outcome of such a game is determined by:
Theorem. The risk of contracting AIDS during so-called “protected sex”approaches 100 percent as the number of episodes of sexual intercourse with an infected person increases.
Proof: Consider a Bernoulli random variable with value 1 if condom fails and zero otherwise. Let X be the sum of n such variables. Assume the variables are independent and identically distributed. For any n, the sum has a binomial distribution and it is a simple exercise to show that the probability that X > 0 (i.e. of at least one failure) approaches 1 as n increases.
Condom promotion spreads HIV
Two important related and seemingly contradictory effects are possible when condoms are promoted:
- E1. A reduction in virus transmission probability per coital act when condoms are used.
- E2. An overall increase in transmission rate in the population due to increases in promiscuity encouraged by the promotion of condoms.
Since factors (E1) and (E2) work in opposite directions, much polemic has been generated by those who, for economic or ideological motives or simply because they fail to understand that both effects are simultaneously possible, focus only on E1 and ignore the above theorem. In reality, evidence indicates that when condoms are distributed, the alleged benefit due to factor E1 is more than nullified by E2. According to Dr. Edward C. Green, director of the AIDS Prevention Research Project at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies,
“There is a consistent association shown by our best studies, including the U.S.-funded ‘Demographic Health Surveys,’ between greater availability and use of condoms and higher (not lower) HIV-infection rates,” he said in an interview earlier this year.
“This may be due in part to a phenomenon known as risk compensation,” Green explained, “meaning that when one uses a risk-reduction ‘technology’ such as condoms, one often loses the benefit (reduction in risk) by ‘compensating’ or taking greater chances than one would take without the risk-reduction technology.”
If a group or individual is already maximally promiscuous and condom using, effect E2 will be negligible. However, in this case, the reduction in transmission probability per coital act achieved by condoms will be more than counterbalanced by the fact that, for HIV discordant couples, the asymptotic limit of repeated condom roulette is virus transmission with probability 1. As a result, the overall residual infection rate for such a group will remain high —despite condom promotion and use. Only behavioral shifts can reduce overall infection rates. This partly explains why, notwithstanding the promotion of condoms, transmission rates for certain populations, such blacks in many US inner city areas and gays have remained many times the average for the population as a whole. In the case of gays, reductions in average life spans exceeding 8 years have been observed and, in some studies as much 20 years. HIV infection rates for US blacks in 2003 were 650% higher than for the population as a whole.
For populations of intermediate promiscuity, effect E2 will tend to outweigh E1 and the promotion of condoms can be expected to increase the net infection rate, a fact in accordance with the studies cited by Green. It is notable that every year, for many years, the South African government has distributed hundreds of millions of condoms in a futile bid to control the AIDS epidemic. Despite this, the AIDS rate has risen to almost 30%. and millions are condemned to die in this futile and unethical attempt to refute the now empirically based null hypothesis that “condoms are ineffective in fighting the AIDS epidemic”.
In the case of a highly monogamous population, factor E1 is insignificant and promotion of condoms can only increase the virus transmission rate. This might be the case in some
poor countries, where promiscuity is kept low, precisely because the majority of the population can afford neither condoms nor the shame of children born out of wedlock. In such a situation the false sense of security caused by the distribution of free condoms can be especially significant in increasing disease transmission. Moreover, the very notion that unfaithful men will use condoms to protect their wives is absurd. In reality many prefer to hide their unfaithfulness and/or HIV status. And what of normal couples who want children?
In every case, we see that the promotion of condoms fails stop the AIDS epidemic and can actually increases the level of infection. Despite the annual use of over 10 billion condoms AIDS rates remain high. Halting the epidemic can only be done by promoting abstinence and monogamy. In this sense, the recent controversial claim by Pope Benedict that condoms cannot stop the AIDS epidemic and can even worsen it is good science and good mathematics. Those who proclaim otherwise may have blood on their hands.
Some Statistics
The following table based upon data from the 2003 World Factbook of the US Central Intelligence Agency shows HIV/AIDS rates as a function of Catholic population.
| Country | Religion | % Aids Infection |
|---|---|---|
| Burundi | 62% Catholic | 6% |
| Angola | 38% Catholic | 3.9% |
| Ghana | 63% Christian | 3.1% |
| Uganda | 33% Catholic (66%christian) | 4.1% |
| Botswana | 5% Catholic | 37.3% |
| South Africa | 6% Catholic | 21.5% |
The available statistics show that countries with a large Catholic percentage population, show significantly lower rates of HIV/AIDS infections than countries with mostly non-Catholic populations.
References