 The United States government has not only legalized the choice of some
people killing other humans, but has restricted that choice to only one
gender in America. Further, from that one gender, the federal government has
chosen only a small segment of that gender to give the legal authority to
make the choice to kill another human being. Of course the means of killing
another human being that accounts for the greatest cause of death for human
beings in America is that of abortion.
Not everyone has the legal authority to make that choice. The choice has
been given only to women. Not every woman has that choice; only those who
are in child-bearing age. Of course even that smaller group still remains
unable to make that choice until they have become pregnant with a human
child. At the point of conception that small segment of gender-specific
humans are granted the choice to terminate the life of the child resulting
from the choice that resulted in the conception. Once the choice for
termination is carried out, that particular woman has the choice of abortion
removed until another conception occurs. Once having exhausted all
possibilities of conceiving, the woman has the right of choice legally
removed permanently.
Consequently, choice is the mechanism used to make abortion the highest
means of one human being terminating the life of another human being in
America. Other means of death of human beings pale by comparison.
Accidents have claimed the lives of many thousands of people each year. In
2010, there were 33,687 deaths from motor vehicle crashes.
There have been great efforts to regulate the safety features in all
automakers. There are air bag and seat belt laws throughout the country.
There are development, construction, design and material restrictions on new
cars that relate to safety. There are a myriad of state laws regarding speed
limits, highway construction, lane usage, driver education, licenses
required for driving and many other safeguards to ensure safe driving and
the prevention of deaths from vehicles.
Suicides have claimed the lives of human beings each year as well; there
were 38,364 suicides in 2010.
There have been great efforts in counseling, medical support and support
groups to help prevent suicides. Prevention has been supported by
psychiatric intervention, media awareness, entertainment highlighting the
problem and prevention strategies, numerous organizations supporting
intervention and prevention, private and government studies of causes,
triggers, signals to identify prevention and higher education courses for
training health professionals in treatment and prevention techniques.
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 Yet, in 2010 there were 15.68 times more deaths by abortion than
vehicle deaths or suicides combined. The Center for Disease Control
recorded the deaths in 2010 for the leading causes of death through
disease. Those deaths included:
| Heart disease: |
597,689 |
| Cancer: |
574,743 |
| Chronic lower respiratory diseases: |
138,080 |
| Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): |
129,476 |
| Accidents (unintentional injuries): |
120,859 |
| Alzheimer's disease: |
83,494 |
| Diabetes: |
69,071 |
| Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, & nephrosis: |
50,476 |
| Influenza and Pneumonia: |
50,097 |
Although heart disease and cancer vie or first and second disease
that accounts for the highest number of deaths by disease, neither
even comes close to the number of deaths caused by abortion in any
year recorded.
Abortion has resulted in half again as many deaths of human beings
than heart disease. The same for cancer; twice as many died from
abortion than those who died from cancer according to statistics
from 2010. With all the rest of the diseases listed, the total less
than one-half of the deaths caused by abortion.
During the same year, 2010, there were 1.13 (1,130,000) million
human beings who died as a result of abortions in America.
The efforts from pro-life organizations or individual to curb or
prevent the abortions in America have been met with ridicule, anger,
attack, name-calling, charges of being radical and a great deal of
effort to marginalize any attempts to change the course of abortion
in America.
Yet, in 2010 there were 15.68 times more deaths by abortion than
vehicle deaths or suicides. So the number of deaths through abortion
continues to be the greatest killer of human life than any other
form of death; and it continues to be legal.
So the number of deaths in America through abortion continues to be
the greatest killer of human life than any other form of death; and
it continues to be legal.
[By JIM KILLEBREW]
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