# No One Born for 30 Years

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-born-for-30-years/673307>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 7, 2013, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-born-for-30-years/673307 "2013-11-07T04:04:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-born-for-30-years/673307/41 "2013-11-08T04:26:18Z")

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> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> “I mean in the past. Before they changed the water.”

Was that before the war against the cows?

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**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-born-for-30-years/673307/42 "2013-11-08T04:40:12Z")

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> [@Ponderoid](#):
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> This theme was explored in the 2006 movie _[Children of Men](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Men)_ which was adapted from the 1992 book _[The Children of Men](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children_of_Men)_…

[ZPG](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZPG_(film)) predates the book by 20 yrs and has the _exact same premise_ as Savage’s proposal. Right down to the 30 yr moratorium and compulsory abortions. Did Savage also advocate offending couples _and their children_ be publically executed on the spot like in the movie? Of course in the movie humanity’s probably headed towards a massive die off anyone. I did think it was odd that dominant (only?) form of birth control in the future was a DIY abortion ray every woman had in her bathroom instead of an implant or a daily pill, but who in the 1970s could’ve predicted that?

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-born-for-30-years/673307/43 "2013-11-08T08:23:21Z")

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If no more children were being born, I would quite honestly kill myself. Being a father is a major life goal to me, and if I were _guaranteed_ that it was never going to happen, what the hell’s the point in going on with the rest of my life?

But that’s just me.

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