{"id":19309,"date":"2021-01-01T14:55:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T22:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=19309"},"modified":"2021-01-01T14:19:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T22:19:51","slug":"abortion-leading-global-cause-of-death-in-2020-with-42-7-million-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/abortion-leading-global-cause-of-death-in-2020-with-42-7-million-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion Leading Global Cause of Death in 2020 with 42.7 Million Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19239\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/lawmakers-asking-whether-cyberattack-is-act-of-war\/warning-300x100-300x100-11\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/warning-300x100-300x100-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"300,100\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"warning-300&amp;#215;100-300&amp;#215;100\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/warning-300x100-300x100-1.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19239\" src=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/warning-300x100-300x100-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19310\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/abortion-leading-global-cause-of-death-in-2020-with-42-7-million-killed\/facebookblocksroewademovie\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/FacebookBlocksRoeWadeMovie.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"FacebookBlocksRoeWadeMovie\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/FacebookBlocksRoeWadeMovie.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19310\" src=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/FacebookBlocksRoeWadeMovie-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/FacebookBlocksRoeWadeMovie-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/FacebookBlocksRoeWadeMovie.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Posts by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/author\/thomas-d-williams\/\">Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0 January 1, 2021<\/p>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Abortion was once again the number-one cause of death globally in 2020, with a record 42.7 million unborn babies killed in the womb, according to data provided by Worldometer.<\/p>\n<p>As of December 31, 2020, there were 42.7 million\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldometers.info\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">abortions<\/a> performed in the course of the year, Worldometer revealed, while 8.2 million people died from cancer, 5 million from smoking, and 1.7 million of HIV\/AIDS.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, worldwide <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/opsdashboard\/index.html#\/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">deaths<\/a> from the coronavirus in 2020 totaled 1.8 million, according to Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n<p>Worldometer \u2014\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldometers.info\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">voted<\/a>\u00a0one of the best free reference websites by the American Library Association (ALA) \u2014 keeps a running tally through the year of major world statistics, including population, births, deaths, automobiles produced, books published, and CO2 emissions.<\/p>\n<p>It also registers the total number of abortions performed worldwide, based on the latest statistics on abortions published by the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n<p>Globally, there were more deaths from abortion in 2020 than all deaths from cancer, malaria, HIV\/AIDS, smoking, alcohol, and traffic accidents\u00a0<em>combined<\/em>, according to Worldometer statistics.<\/p>\n<p>The shocking number of deaths from abortion, in fact, has led certain observers to <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/services\/englishnews\/2018\/head-of-march-for-life-calls-abortion-social-justice-cause-of-our-time.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">call<\/a> abortion \u201cthe social justice cause of our time,\u201d since the sheer magnitude of the problem completely overshadows other human rights issues.<\/p>\n<p>The year 2020 also saw abortion <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/30\/world\/americas\/argentina-legalizes-abortion.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">legalized<\/a> in Argentina, one of the last bastions in the world to recognize and protect the right to life of unborn children.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2021\/01\/01\/abortion-leading-global-cause-of-death-in-2020-with-42-7-million-killed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.breitbart.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. &#8211;\u00a0 January 1, 2021 Abortion was once again the number-one cause of death globally in 2020, with a record 42.7 million unborn babies killed in the womb, according to data provided by Worldometer. As of December 31, 2020, there were 42.7 million\u00a0abortions performed in the course of the year, Worldometer revealed, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/abortion-leading-global-cause-of-death-in-2020-with-42-7-million-killed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Abortion Leading Global Cause of Death in 2020 with 42.7 Million Killed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[43,3796,15491,3326,8684,15492],"class_list":["post-19309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warning","tag-abortion","tag-argentina","tag-cause-of-death","tag-human-rights","tag-unborn-children","tag-worldometer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-51r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19311,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19309\/revisions\/19311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}