New Zealand has a growing population due to immigration yet our annual birth rate is declining. This is due to the thousands of pregnancy terminations we have each year. It was 17,000 last year.

So although the country is in economic recession, there is not an unemployment problem. There is a substantial work shortage in all professions and trades.

Normally if there is an economic recession, there is higher unemployment. However, New Zealand has, due to legalised Government assisted abortion, an inverted population triangle. Lots of retired, unemployable old people at the top and a shortage of younger employable people and a declining birth rate at the bottom of the inverted triangle.

In my view, legalised medical pregnancy termination has a lot to answer for.

Hylton Rhodes, Tauranga South.