Is There a Slaughter of Innocents in the U.S.A?

Who are the innocents? The United States goes to great length to protect innocents with law enforcement. Never in human history have so many babies been treated so well, and youth too. Laws to protect women are promulgated so much as to fill legal libraries. I wonder what innocents are being slaughtered?

In history infanticide has been fairly common. Society has progressed over the millennia from the Roman era where deformed infants were tossed into the public garbage piles and to England with exploited child labor laws in factories that raised the minimum working age to the present where spanking is mostly illegal in schools.

 If the slaughtered innocents are those abortions made by the millions I would say that is a consequence of prosperity and empowerment of women. It is usually a female choice. Perhaps it requires faithlessness too.

China had strict abortion laws and they lacked many of the mal-attributes the United States has concerning sin (although they were atheist). IMO conflating sex issues with other violence such as murder is probably a mistake. Drugs, alcohol, gangs and poverty are likely the most common causal factors for the 17,000 annual homicides. Another factor is social anomie and chaos from mass illegal immigration. California is the murder capitol of the USA by far with the most illegal immigrants and lax law enforcement. 

https://knoema.com/.../United-States.../Number-of-homicides

I knew a doctor that informed me that some mammal species have spontaneous abortions when over-population happens. The world is very populated, and zero population growth has been a social virtue in some circles since the early 1960s. Because of Darwinianism that has been reinforced with mass loss and degradation of faith. Faithless people in an over-populated world with an ineffective ecclesiastical structure better suited to the pre-literate era experiencing prosperity, birth control and mass socialization by media haven't a godly, monogamous village society to live in. Women too much choose to avoid the 'mistake' of having kids. It is a complex situation not addressed by church or state, the media or many scholars with wholistic competence.

It is interesting to consider Augustine's theology of original sin, and that mankind is totally depraved in regards to God's perfection. Without pre-destination of the elect none could be saved for they are born in sin, and perhaps, condemned since conception- unless they were the elect. Pre-destination or election- God's work and the Holy Spirit-is what enables faith and regeneration. Faith and regeneration seem to be time-delayed in appearance for an individual usually, in conformity to God's schedule and will for each individual. The elect are saved and regenerated with faith as the Holy Spirit actualizes unto the soul.

 It is interesting that some write as if election follows human determination of faith with retro-causality. One need disambiguate the logical incompatibility. Humans tend to want to believe they have free will and the spirit of God will enable them to be saved if they in some way have faith. I think for logical consistency, with God's omnipotence, one ought to believe God predestined everything. The question that should be rightfully asked is how may total predestination and contingent free will be compatible. Some people find it troubling to believe that God has pre-determined everything; I don't. Aleoretic elements (the process of chance in creation) in theology don't work well for me.