the unseen genocide

the unseen genocide

Over at Feministe, Jill cheers on the efforts of Colombian abortion crusader Monica Roa.

In 1999, 173 people died of HIV in Colombia, 1841 died in motorcycle accidents, 19482 of heart attack, and 25812 were murdered. 183553 people died in Colombia that year.

The Economist article reprinted at Feministe states that on average 400 thousand women in Columbia have backstreet abortions every year. So in Colombia, more than twice as many people die due to being aborted by their mothers than all other causes combined.

No wonder the government of Colombia and the Catholic church are against abortion.

Most of what I have written so far in this blog post was part of a comment I wrote at that Feministe post. Now, I'm going to go a little further and look at places where abortion is legal: Canada and the United States.

218062 people died in Canada in the year 2000. In the year 1995 (the latest year for which I could find the data) there were 106658 abortions. Abortions are not counted among the mortality statistics. If they were, 1/3 of all deaths in Canada would be due to abortions.

A chart on the page at the latter link shows that for every 100 live births in Canada, there are 28 abortions; for the US, for every 100 live births there are about 34 abortions.

There were 1.29 million abortions in the United States in 2002, compared with 2403351 total deaths in the USA in the year 2000; those abortions are the equivalent of a September 11th every single day in the United States. In contrast, in the year 2000 there were 16339 murders in the United States, an average of 79 abortions for every murder.

In all three countries, abortion is by far the leading cause of death. More people are killed every year in abortuaries in the USA than were killed in the genocide in Rwanda back in 1994.

This is evil; there is no other word to describe it.

Update: The comments at Feministe are moderated, so my comment does not appear on that post. I guess that facts get too uncomfortable sometimes. That's ok, as I copied most my comment here to this post.

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