Abortion: A Crisis of Global Proportions – Joshua Lyons youtube.com

Following the Supreme Court’s decision on Roe vs Wade, abortion proves to be one of the most contentious and polarizing of topics. The passion and emotion on both sides has been pushed to the brink. Laying out the mere statistics this video demonstrates the reality of abortion on a global scale.

Abortion: the death and termination of a fetus or embryo. Scientifically speaking a human embryo is the developing human individual from the time of conception to the eight-week period. A fetus is the development of that individual from about two months to the time of birth – a being with its own separate and unique DNA, mind and developing characteristics.

According to the Lancet, the W.H.O. and Guttmacher, 73 million abortions (human lives terminated) occurred each year between 2015 & 2019 worldwide. That is a greater number than most countries’ populations but 19. In total that’s 365 million abortions within that time period. In comparison the Bubonic Plague (Black Death) was responsible for an estimated 75 to 200 million deaths over the span of 7 years. The two deadliest wars spanning approximately 10 years resulted in around 115 million deaths. According to the W.H.O. there were 55 million non-abortion related deaths in 2019. 18 million more lives ended before birth that year than those that ended after birth.

These staggering and horrific numbers reveal the disastrous and evil time in which we live and how far we are from the ideal – “You shall not murder.” (Ex 20:13)