Monday, April 23, 2012

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Live Action Blog:
Just how far-reaching is the impact of abortion on our population and on the world? Yes, you may have read the statistics. You may have read the estimates. But that one big number is hard to break down into something tangible, something you can really grasp.

Do you really want to understand the impact of abortion on a day-by-day, minute-by-minute level?

I came across an eye-opening website on the world’s population. It’s a clock. The clock tracks many things, one of which is death. It breaks death down into multiple groups. The noncommunicable diseases – cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and respiratory diseases – take many lives. Also reported are death by injury and death by communicable diseases. You can watch the death count rise for each of the categories listed.

But there in the lower right-hand corner is the count for abortions. I found myself staring at this number, watching the number rise right before my very eyes. Watching the count increase one number at a time and thinking that each number represents an individual child was sobering.
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