Japan's Race Suicide

What Michael Thomas Cibenko writes of Japoan can be said of Korea and then some, because the birthrate is even lower this side of the East Sea — The Culture of Death & the Death of a Culture.

After he and his Japanese wife conceived their first baby, he accounts the exact same experience my wife and I had; "the first thing the doctor asked us, in a rather matter-of-fact manner, was whether we wanted to keep the baby." Slowly, he came to the conclusion that he "was living in a culture that, on the one hand, did not wholeheartedly embrace the sanctity of new life but, on the other hand, recognized that there was a problem stemming from the lack of it" and that "despite all the beauty of Japan and her rich culture, something had gone terribly wrong."

Mr. Cibenko correctly notes that "the view that having fewer children is the answer to society's problems is revealed to be as shortsighted as it is false." He also notes that "the Catholic Church -- most notably Pope Paul VI's 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae -- has long been warning that contraception, sterilization, and abortion cause the collapse of individual morality, the destruction of families, and ultimately the demise of society as a whole."