{"id":237346,"date":"2021-01-04T11:42:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T17:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=237346"},"modified":"2021-01-27T15:32:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T21:32:01","slug":"abortion-leading-cause-death-despite-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-leading-cause-death-despite-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion still leading cause of death despite tragic year of loss due to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abortion maintained its position as the leading cause of death globally for 2020, with 42.7 million preborn human beings killed, according to Worldometer<\/a>. This number is slightly up from the\u00a042.4 million preborn babies<\/a> who died by abortion in 2019.<\/p>\n

According to Breitbart<\/a>, Worldometer \u2014 which has been voted one of the best free reference websites by the American Library Association \u2014 tracks major global statistics annually. Based on those statistics, there were more deaths from abortion in 2020 than all deaths from cancer, malaria, HIV\/AIDS, smoking, alcohol, and traffic accidents combined.<\/p>\n

Worldometer’s abortion statistics are based on the number of abortions published by the World Health Organization, which actually\u00a0promoted<\/a> DIY “self-managed” abortions amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Global deaths from COVID-19 totaled 1.8 million in 2020.<\/p>\n

Though the phrase “safe, legal, and rare” has been used by abortion advocates from President Bill Clinton<\/a> to former Planned Parenthood president Dr. Leana Wen<\/a>, the abortion industry has an undeniable agenda to expand abortion and increase its numbers. And after decades of downplaying abortion, they are finally vocalizing their full-throated support for it.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Researchers: Abortion should be listed as a \u2018major cause of death\u2019 in statistics<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2014, abortion advocate Laura Kacere listed her problems<\/a> with advocating for abortion to be rare. Among her list of complaints was that “abortion isn’t bad,” it isn’t “something to be ashamed of,” and “reducing… the rate of abortion” should not be a societal goal.<\/p>\n

Just this month, current Planned Parenthood president Alexis McGill Johnson essentially said the same, calling\u00a0abortion a “critically important part of what we do” and insisting that the abortion corporation should steer away from claiming abortion is only a small part of their services.<\/p>\n

\u201c[I]t is still a critically important part of what we do,\u201d she said<\/a>. \u201cSo I think when we say, \u2018It\u2019s a small part of what we do,\u2019 what we\u2019re doing is actually stigmatizing it. Like it\u2019s really not a big deal that Planned Parenthood does this. We are a proud abortion provider. We believe that abortion is health care, and we believe, fundamentally, that self-determination begins with being able to control your own body and freedom begins with being able to control your own body. So I don\u2019t like to marginalize it in that way.\u201d<\/p>\n