What causes more deaths? War or abortion?

The following email was sent to me by someone I know in the community. He is one of the many people who stands outside Planned Parenthood during 40 days of life. I had this conversation with Alan Knapp in person as well and am reprinting his comments at his request.

"I have done some reflecting, especially while taking part in the 40 days for life.  Some facts need to be brought to the attention of many people.   

Two years ago, at the first 40 day vigil, a letter to the editor (March 14, 2013) was sent by George Kirkpatrick of Fieldbrook.  Here it is: 

 "Why we donate to Planned Parenthood" - "You know, or should, that PP does more than abortions.  In fact it prevents more abortions than it facilitates.  Through education, birth control and emphasis on having a healthy baby.  The truth be known that sometimes, just sometimes, an abortion in (sic - is) the best way to save a woman's life.  And special interest groups forcing their "religion" on others is a slippery slope.  Remember:  Life begins when you keep your nose out of other people's difficult decisions with your dogma.  We donated $40 recently to PP.  The three misguided people who stand out could protest war, if they really cared for life."

I am truly sorry I did not respond to this letter.  I searched the internet, finding two amazing sites.  The first site, numbersofabortions.com, is like a horror film.  It has twelve "windows" of facts of abortions.  Worldwide, since 1980 -  1,327,583,227 lives have been lost to abortion!  Since Roe vs Wade (1973) -  57,698,553 lives have been aborted in the U.S. alone!  The second site can be found through Wikipedia under "total number of military casualties in the U.S. since 1775".  That total under "combat" and "other" amounts to 1,321,612.  If abortion is not classified as war on the unborn, religion or not, Mr. Kirkpatrick would do well to think again....PP has performed 6,699,378 abortions since 1970 alone!   This year, in the US, 206,689 abortions have happened, of which 2,004 were due to rape or incest.   I see in these figures a terrible truth."

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