An estimated 1.2 million unborn babies lose their lives to abortions each year in America.
How does that stack up with the other causes of life being lost?
Compare it to the 37,792 lives lost to drug overdoses and other drug-related deaths in 2010, or to the 35,080 lives lost in car accidents, or the 31,513 lives lost to guns, or the 25,440 lives taken by alcohol.
Against those figures, abortion's loses are staggering.
Tobacco use accounts for about one in every five deaths annually in the United States. That's about 443,000 deaths per year -- but still less than half the number of lives lost to abortions.
The number one cause of death in the United States? That would be heart disease. It claimed 631,636 people in 2006, making it the cause of 26 percent of all deaths. More than one in every four deaths is from heart disease.
Abortion: 1.2 million lives lost each year. On average, an abortion claims a life somewhere in the U.S. about every thirty seconds. Abortion dwarfs so many other causes of life being lost, and beats them all. And, unlike the "leading" cause of death, it doesn't usually claims its victims in the late years, but before they can even begin to live.
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