http://sturmunddrang1.blogspot.com/2012/04/i-stand-with-unborn.html
So I googled a couple items. I wanted to compare abortion statistics, the deaths of the unborn, with two well-known atrocities of the 20th century, perpetrated by ruthless dictators Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.
Many know that Hitler executed six million Jews, but the consensus is that he murdered about 11 million people in total, including gypsies and homosexuals, those who didn't fit the Aryan mold.
Stalin, on the other hand, is said to have killed about 20 million people, primarily his own countrymen.
I also googled abortion statistics. Statistics are reported by the Center for Disease Control, and by Planned Parenthood. CDC's results undercall the carnage, because a few states don't report abortion statistics, like California. And Planned Parenthood has skin in the game, as they say.
But I was able to find that about 1.2 million abortions were performed in 2008. About one percent of those were to abort a fetus after a rape.
And then I got to thinking, in my analytical way about the three separate phenomena of mass murders:
- Hitler's killing, say, occurred between 1935, when he rose to power, and 1945, when he committed suicide shortly before Nazi Germany was defeated in World War II. 11 million victims divided by 10 years = 1 million victims, on average, each year.
- Let's say that Stalin's killing occurred between 1930 and 1950. 21 million victims divided by 20 years = 1 million victims, on average, each year.
- The average death toll resulting from abortions is, using the 2008 results, about 1 million victims per year.
Admittedly, it is a nasty equation, and sounds a bit contrived, even hyperbolic. But the perspective is a bit arresting, don't you think?
What does it say to you?
What does it say to you?
