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(Life Site News<\/a>)\u00a0More than 42 million abortions took place globally in 2019 according to the tracking service Worldometers, once again finding abortion to be the single largest cause of death across the planet for the year.<\/p>\n

As of December 31, Worldometers had counted<\/a> 42.4 million abortions, which is more than half the total number of deaths by every other cause (58.6 million). Abortions dwarfed every individual cause of death, including overall deaths due to disease (13 million).<\/p>\n

The true total number of abortions may be either lower or higher, however, as Worldometers relies on health and mortality statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO), which in turn relies on estimates from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Worldwide in 2018, 42 million human beings were brutally killed by abortion<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c(O)f the 56.3 million global abortions Guttmacher estimates annually, no more than 10 percent\u00a0can be officially accounted for and only 23 percent\u00a0have any basis in empirical evidence,\u201d Abort73\u2019s Michael Spielman has written<\/a>. \u201cThe other 77 percent\u00a0are assumed based upon a complex statistical model that estimates\u201d a variety of factors. Most significantly, Guttmacher \u201cassume(s)\u00a0a constant abortion rate that is unaffected by the legality of abortion,\u201d potentially to sway the findings in favor of the abortion lobby\u2019s claim that pro-life laws are ineffective.<\/p>\n

Worldometers found similar numbers last year, leading left-wing outlets such as Snopes<\/em> to attempt to minimize the news<\/a> not by disputing the numbers\u00a0but by arguing that abortion should not be considered a \u201ccause of death.\u201d Scientifically speaking, however, it is a settled<\/a> biological fact<\/a> that the embryos and fetuses destroyed by abortion are living human beings.<\/p>\n

Worldometers tracks and estimates statistics<\/a> in real time on a wide variety of subjects, based on data from sources such as the United Nations, WHO, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and more. It boasts recognition and citations from a wide variety of media outlets and academic works, as well as the endorsement<\/a> of the American Library Association.<\/p>\n

As of January 2, Worldometers has already counted<\/a> more than 190,000 worldwide abortions so far in 2020.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: This article was published at Life Site News<\/a> and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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