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Health & Healing

than 13,000 square miles ― larger
than the states of Connecticut, Del-
aware, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachu-
setts, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
Rhode Island, or Vermont. But,
because of “freedom of choice,”
these billions of children will never
see the light of day.

Holding Hands
If these 62 million babies had been
born and had grown up, then had
gotten together to hold hands, the The Vietnam Memorial
resulting line would stretch around
the world at the equator more than
two and a half times ― more than to the East. a fully loaded jumbo jet crashing
65,000 miles! every 12 hours, year-round, with no
The “Marching Aborted” survivors.
A Much Larger “Quilt Project” During the height of the popula- We can adapt this visual imagery for
For several years, American homo- tion scare in the late 1960s, bigoted the aborted babies. For example, any
phile activists promoted the “Quilt anti-population alarmists sometimes community would mourn for weeks
Project,” where 3-foot by 6-foot referred to their fear of “the march- if a school bus full of fifty children
rectangles of cloth decorated with ing Chinese.” They meant that the crashed, killing all inside. If we as-
the stories of victim’s lives were laid population of the People’s Republic sume that the abortion mills in this
side by side. The primary purposes of China was increasing so fast (21 country are operating fifty hours per
of this project were to generate million per year at that time) that the week, fifty babies are killed every
sympathy and show the magnitude Chinese could march two abreast eight minutes!
of the AIDS epidemic. The largest past a single point and never have
such display to date has covered an the same person pass twice. A pro-life debater could also tailor
area equivalent to a football field. this image to a local abortuary ― for
We can adapt this concept to de- example, one that killed 2,500 babies
If 62 million of these quilts were scribe the magnitude of the “march- every year would be equivalent to a
laid down adjacent to each other, ing aborted.” There are about 73 fifty-child school bus crashing every
one for each aborted preborn baby, million surgical and medical abor- week.
it would cover an area of 39 square tions committed all over the world
miles! annually. If these children marched The Dead States
past one point continuously for 24 Abortionists have killed a number
This quilt would easily blanket the hours a day, they would be more of children more than the combined
central districts of any large city. than four abreast. populations of eighteen states:
You can mention landmarks bound- Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho,
ing this area in the appropriate city Crashing School Buses Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri,
in order to strengthen your point. The World Health Organization Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New
For example, let us suppose that a claims that around the world each Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma,
circular quilt commemorating all of year “4.7–13.2% of maternal deaths South Dakota, Utah, Washington.
the preborn babies in the United can be attributed to unsafe abor- and Wyoming. A map of the US
States who have died from abortion tion…. In developed regions, it is with all of these states blacked out
were laid over Washington, D.C., estimated that 30 women die for is a real attention-grabber. This
centering on the White House. This every 100,000 unsafe abortions. In gives an audience some idea of the
quilt would cover Crystal City and developing regions, that number colossal magnitude of the abortion
Reagan National Airport in the rises to 220 deaths per 100,000 disaster.
South, the Smithsonian Zoo in the unsafe abortions.” This is roughly
North, all of Georgetown in the the equivalent to the death toll of But if someone thinks that this is
West and the National Arboretum not particularly impressive since

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