Feminism labeled a 'society killer'
by Chad Groening and Jody Brown
February 22, 2007
(OneNewsNow.com) - - A pro-family organization says it's "sad world" when countries have to pay women to have children in order for a society to survive. Unfortunately, says a spokesman for Population Research Institute, that is what is happening in countries like Italy where birth rates have sunk to below-replacement level.Over the past several decades, feminist leaders like the late Betty Friedan, who was a founder of the National Organization for Women, and Gloria Steinem of Ms. magazine fame have decried the roles of women as mothers and housewives, suggesting they are forms of sexual exploitation. The modern feminist movement, as a result, has placed a higher value on women's place in the working world -- and its influence has had far-reaching consequences.
For example, Joseph D'Agostino, vice president for communications at the Population Research Institute, sees feminism's influence on nations' birth rates. He notes that modern societies now are organized around economic production, not the production of the next generation of human beings. The result? D'Agostino says feminism "destroys" every single society it touches.
"It is the most socially destructive movement perhaps in the history of the world -- and I mean that in the scientific sense," he emphasizes. "Every single culture, every single nation that's adopted feminism [as a dominant philosophy] is now dying out. Feminism means death."
D'Agostino asserts that feminism has coerced women into going into the workplace in order to maintain middle-class lifestyles. As a result, he says some countries are now offering incentives and even outright cash for women to have children so a society can survive.
"I think that indicates that feminism has already really spiritually killed your society," he says, adding that every single society or subculture in the world that has adopted feminism now has a below-replacement birth rate. "If you now have to pay women to have children, you've really reached the point of no return and it's just not going to work. In fact, lots of countries now are paying women to have children ...."
Evidently that approach is not working. According to the Institute spokesman, none of those countries have been able to get their birth rates back up to replacement levels.
D'Agostino says while Islamic Jihad and "global warming" are often presented as the most dangerous threats to the Western world today, they pale in comparison to the demographic crisis -- because without people, nothing else matters.
