Take a look at Jill Stanek's blog post and you will see that she is quoting the 443,000 number directly from the FDA's announcement.
She writes, "Cigarettes claim the lives of 443,000 each year?" as a QUESTION. She isn't accepting the number as valid at all, she is simply using the number the FDA claims to demonstrate how deadly abortion really is.
I totally understand what you’re saying, and I know the number is coming from the FDA (via CDC’s SAMMEC computer program) but it still doesn’t make that number correct.
My take was that she was taking them at their word about that number and using it in comparison to her actual valid number.
My point being, she could have phrased it better.
Her number is valid, the FDA number isn’t, not by a long shot. Her factual number is probably closer to 6 times, the number attributable to tobacco if the government would stop the lie about that number.
I support the petition, don’t get me wrong. I just get annoyed with bogus crap from big brother.