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Health & Healing

Vietnam Memorial in Washington,
D.C. This memorial is a shiny black
wall that stretches 492 feet and lists
the names of the 58,209 known
Americans killed in that war. If such
a wall listed the names of the more
than 62 million babies legally killed
by surgical and medical abortions in
the United States, it would be over
90 miles long!

Knowing that there are 73 million
abortions worldwide each year, the
ic preborn babies whom they will number of abortions in just 38 years
never see. we can frame the issue in terms that would equal about 2.78 billion pre-
people understand and will therefore born babies wiped out by surgical
Pro-abortionists tend to strongly remember. and medical abortions worldwide. If
resist using hard facts and statistics we built a way to commemorate just
because they do not support the The statistic is sobering: As of these, it would stretch more than
“pro-choice” position. Instead, they February 2021, there have been over a thousand miles farther than the
ignore facts and statistics and lean 62 million legal surgical and medical distance from Los Angeles to New
on emotional appeals and feelings to abortions in the United States. York City.
make their points.
The worst year was 1990 with Cemeteries for Preborn Babies
When we use documented statistics 1,608,600 abortions; since then, the Pro-life activists frequently set up
backed up by visual imagery during number of abortions has declined temporary displays of thousands of
written or oral attempts to persuade, almost every year to the current crosses representing the number of
we elevate the debate above emo- level of just under 900,000 annually, preborn babies killed by abortions
tions and appeal directly to logic partly due to never-ending pro-life in the United States every day. These
and reason. No pro-abortionist can efforts and partly due to the “rip- crosses make a riveting display of
refute documented statistics ― es- ple effect” of having fewer young the brutal reality of abortion (at
pecially when they originate with women who are aborting. This least until they are torn down by
pro-abortion sources, which elimi- phenomenon is itself a reflection pro-abortion vandals). If standard
nates the inevitable accusations of of the sad fact that there are fewer burial plots were allocated to each
“anti-choice bias.” young women because many of preborn child killed by surgical
their would-have-been mothers were abortion in the United States, the re-
Illustrating Statistics on Abortion themselves aborted 20 to 25 years sulting cemetery would cover more
The old saying that a picture is ago. than 300 square miles.
worth a thousand words has nev-
er been more important, because The Vietnam Memorial If there were a cemetery for all of
people these days are persuaded by A good way to get people to think the 2.78 billion preborn babies killed
imagery, not words. Therefore, we is by asking if they have visited the by surgical abortions in the world
can increase our impact by painting since 1960, it would cover more
vivid “word pictures” to illustrate
our points during discussions or
debates.

A pro-lifer makes a tremendous
impact on listeners by using his
imagination to relate the abortion
issue to everyday images that people
are familiar with. In other words,

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