By some estimates, 21,000 children die of preventable illnesses every day, worldwide. Twenty-one thousand every single day. That’s a staggering number! But what if I told you that over 2,700 children will die in America today? And what if I told you that the government has passed legislation responsible for those deaths?
Every year, approximately 1 million unborn babies are aborted. The number has fluctuated over the years, but if you look at the latest CDC reports, you’ll find that from 1999 to 2008, between 800,000 and 900,000 abortions took place each year. There’s just one problem with those figures: They don’t include California.
How many abortions are performed in California each year? We don’t know for sure, because California doesn’t report its statistics to the CDC. My guess is that it’s at least 150,000 – 200,000. Why do I think that? Because New York reported over 120,000 abortions in 2008 alone. If there are that many abortions happening in New York each year, we can safely assume that at least as many—probably more—are taking place in California.
So if you add the estimate from California with the figures from the rest of the country (incidentally, California is not the only state that does not report to the CDC, but it is the largest), we can safely assume that 1 million abortions take place in America each year. The vast majority of these are entirely unnecessary. They happen simply because the pregnancy is unwanted and inconvenient.
While the abortion rate has shown some signs of decline over the past few years, the drop has not been what I would call statistically significant. The annual numbers are still well above 800,000 abortions among states that report to the CDC. It’s safe to assume that although we haven’t seen figures for 2009, 2010, or 2011, they won’t be that different from 2008, 2007, and 2006.
What does that mean? That each year, Americans have continued aborting approximately 1 million babies. And that since we rang in the new year at 12:00 AM on January 1, 2000, 12 million babies have been aborted.
That’s roughly 2,738 abortions every day!
- That means every hour, about 114 babies are aborted in America.
- Within 48 hours, abortion will have claimed nearly twice as many lives as the September 11 attacks.
- By this time next month, there will have been more American babies aborted than American soldiers killed during the entire Vietnam War.
When we describe abortion as a blight on America, this is exactly what we’re talking about: Innocent babies being killed by the thousand through no fault of their own. I believe wholeheartedly that future generations judge us by our stance on abortion. They will either applaud us for our resolve to stand against it until it was defeated, or they will wonder how we could let something so blatantly cruel and unjust go unchecked in our land.
