Why is the Christian Right Obsessed with a Lower Birth Rate and Abortion

A family member passed along a video by a woman who works with people frightened about leaving Christianity or becoming acquainted with other paths like Paganism. She is Brittney Hartley who refers to her approach as nononsense spirituality. 

In one of her videos she explains why VP JD Vance and other prominent Catholics talk on and on about the failing birth rate. They point to South Korea which seems to be headed to a population so small the country may have to change or be absorbed. 

Hartley points out that secular people treat the low birth rate as the choices of individuals and that human existence on earth most likely happened by a series of somewhat random events. That being the case, humans might, in a million or so years, experience another series of random events that eliminate us from earth. It is not a threat to anyone or any current set of people.

Many people in the religious right, however, consider themselves so indispensable it is imperative they do not die. Christianity helps such people by assuring them they are double defended from death. First, the god they worship watches over the to prevent accidents or health failures. If that fails there is a backup defense against death. That is, of course, going to heaven and living there. Their importance will continue in heaven. 

This exaggerated sense of self-importance determines their views on abortion and depopulation. If humans are not important enough to be guaranteed birth or are not important enough to continue to populate the earth it means they themselves, as individuals, also are not as important as they now think they are. They are terrified by even the thought of depopulation because it is a profound insult to their individual lofty status.

Cratering birth rates, of course, may be what saves ultimately humans on earth. If there is little food and the population becomes small enough to fit into that window, humans may live on here. So far humans have lived on earth only a short time in the earth's history. 

That humans have lived on earth for only a brief time and may not live on earth later is a reminder that none of us as individuals or all of us together are very important.