Posted on 01/10/2024 11:34:59 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski
Abortion remained the world’s leading cause of death for the fifth consecutive year in 2023, despite the 2022 overturn of Roe v. Wade putting a dent in the United States’ contribution to those totals.
More than 44.6 million abortions were committed across the planet last year, according to Worldometer, a nonpartisan resource that tracks and estimates statistics in real time on a wide variety of subjects, based on data from sources such as the United Nations, World Health Organization (WHO), International Monetary Fund (IMF), and more.
That total is greater than the number of deaths attributed to the next seven causes of death – communicable disease, cancer, smoking, alcohol use, HIV/AIDS, road accidents, and suicide – combined.
“The Worldometer measured the total deaths in 2023 as more than 60.6 million,” the Christian Post notes. “However, that figure does not include abortion as a form of death. If abortions were counted as deaths in the statistics, the fatalities last year would have exceeded 100 million, and abortions would have accounted for more than 40% of them.”
In the U.S., 14 states currently ban all or most abortions, with available data so far indicating that now-enforceable pro-life laws could effectively wipe out an estimated 200,000 abortions a year…
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MURDER OF INNOCENTS....remains the leading cause of death.
We’ll definitely need more immigrants then.
There were 61 million people who died in 2023.
Combined with the fact that 134 million babies were born in 2023, the world population increased by 73 million people in 2023 (134 million births – 61 million deaths = 73 million more people; a net increase of 0.91%).
https://ourworldindata.org/births-and-deaths
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