Say Anything Blog

Something that got lost in all the primary hubub today is the fact that it’s the 34th anniversary of Roe vs Wade, the Supreme Court ruling which made it unconstitutional for states to ban the practice of abortion.

Since that ruling there have been approximately 46 million abortions in this country. That’s a huge number. So huge, in fact, that many people probably don’t comprehend it. Josef Stalin once said that one death is a tragedy, but a million deaths is a statistic. How cynical, but true.  Bearing that in mind, let’s break that big number down a bit.

In the year 2000 alone there were about 3,600 abortions per day. That’s 151 abortions per hour, or about one every 24 seconds.

Maybe those numbers will bring the enormity of the larger number home to you. 46 million aborted children. That’s a little over 15% of our population today gone for no other reason than people not wanting to take responsibility for their own actions.