With a one-minute look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with The Point.

Recently, Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams linked abortion to economic issues like inflation and the price of basic commodities.

Let's be clear, she said. Having children is why you're worried about the price of gas.

You can't divorce being forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy from the economic realities of having a child.

While suggesting we should kill unborn children for economic reasons is an atrocity.

But those who link child-rearing to economic realities are actually telling the truth, just not in the way they realize.

As Bill McGurne recently pointed out the Wall Street Journal, billions more people are now alive than 200 years ago, and yet the world has grown more prosperous, not less. It's out at The Wall Street Journal, billions more people are now alive than 200 years

ago, and yet the world has grown more prosperous, not less.

It's time to reject the absurd calculus by which a country is said to get richer when a farmer's

cow gives birth to a calf, but poorer when a mother delivers a child, he wrote.

At root in all this is worldview.

Whether humans are problems to be solved

or in and of themselves the source of solutions. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.