Far worse carnage than from any war.
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Posted on 10/16/2009 4:59:11 PM PDT by wagglebee
NEW YORK, NY, October 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- A new report by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, entitled "Abortion Worldwide: A Decade of Uneven Progress," points to the fact that over a billion abortions have been committed, say pro-life activists.
The report found that the annual number of abortions have declined over the period from 1995 to 2003. Nevertheless, the Guttmacher Institute said that in 2003 approximately 41.6 million abortions were committed worldwide.
On average, this works out to more than one death by abortion for each second of the year. Since abortion has been available since before 1970 and very widely available since 1980, pro-life activists are saying that, even by a conservative estimate, the total number of preborn children to have been killed by abortion is likely in excess of one billion. If 40 million children per year were aborted since 1980 that would already make for 1.12 billion preborn babies killed.
"There simply isn't anything close," said Stephen Phelan of Human Life International. "Over the many years since this has become a practice, even legalized in many countries, you're over a billion."
"There's definitely nothing to compare. The closest thing you'd get to it would be the atheist, socialist dictators of the 20th century; and even they, in their gruesome efficiency, were only able to kill somewhere between a hundred and a hundred-seventy million people. ... There's no comparison."
The Guttmacher Institute report also mentions the "high degree of safety" of abortions in communist China, but neglects to condemn China's one-child policy or the forced abortions that occur there. It nevertheless refers to the "woman's right to make her own childbearing decisions" and couches the report in the language of "choice." According to the report, 8.8 million "safe" abortions occur in China each year, approximately 1 in 5 of all abortions worldwide.
Fifteen percent of the human race has been murdered in the name of convenience.
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As best I’ve been able to tell, it’s more than all of the wars, famines, plagues and acts of genocide in the history of the world combined.
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These abortions haunt their mothers until the day they die. Trust me, I’ve been married to two women with abortion in their background and it is heartbreaking many, many years after the fact.
Yes. Multiple times more. I believe the numbers are probably higher than these reported estimates.
In his book, “Notes on the State of Virginia,” Jefferson said, writing as a lifelong slave owner:
“Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: That His justice cannot sleep for ever.”
Imagine what Jefferson would say today, in this ever darkening culture of death.
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I’ve been telling people for years that there may well have been 2,000,000,000 (two billion) abortions since World War II, or one quarter of the human race. If even the Guttmacher Institute admits to a billion, that means it is way higher than that.
I guess they have forgotten the Commandment: “Thou shalt not kill.”
It’s a staggering number.
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