“You knit me together in my mother’s womb….” Psalm 139:13
Everyone once and a while a statistic grips you…makes your jaw drop. On Friday, it happened to me. Last week I wrote about the potential impact of the election. During that conversation the topic of the war in Iraq came up and, specifically, the number of causualites that have happened there. The number of total deaths on all sides is projected at 100,000. Tragic. That, for whatever reason, caused me to do a quick search on the number of abortions that occur each year…and what I found stopped me cold. Did you know that
There were 1.21 million abortions in the USÂ in 2005. There were 42 million world wide.
That means 3315 in the US or 115,000 worldwide each day.
138 (US) or 4791worldwide each hour
2.3 (US) or 80Â worldwide each minute
1.33 every second worldwide. So, from the time you began reading this post until the time you are reading this sentence approximate 40 more preganancies were ended.
While I cannot begin to understand every situation behind these 42 million decisions, I can only imagine that behind many choices there is tremendous pain and guilt. The loss of life itself is unspeakable. What can we do? What can I do? Pray, for sure. Seek out a place to help? There are so many wonderful organizations that do so much, yet the tragedies continue.Â
Final question: Would ending the practice of abortion (except in those most rare, extreme circumstances) bring about the biggest societal change in the history of the world? I think it might.
Talk about a dinosaur that needs to be tipped…