The Missing: The Real Impact of Abortion on American Society.

Forty-seven million babies have been aborted in the United States since 1973. Approximately 1.3 million of those lives were taken just last year. One-third of "Generation Y" is missing because of abortion. The death toll is enormously high, yet we can recite such statistics without actually considering just how staggering those numbers really are.

Consider this: more Americans have died because of abortion than have died in the Civil War, both World Wars, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War. and the current war in Iraq combined. More babies are killed each day in America than the total number of people killed in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

There are as many abortion deaths each year as there are deaths caused by heart disease and cancer combined. Again, the numbers are staggering: 1.3 million abortion deaths last year means that about 3,600 babies are killed every day that's 150 deaths per hour, and one baby lost every two and a half minutes!

Where is the outrage? Why isn't there an enormous public outcry over such an immense loss of life? My guess is that the American people simply don't know what they're missing.

We who were born in the 34 years since Roe v. Wade have grown up in a society that does not value human life, that places more importance on ease and convenience than on accountability and responsibility. Look at the lessons taught by television, movies, and much of today's music.

We're told repeatedly that there are no consequences to our actions and that we should live our lives the way we want with little regard for others. Because the pro-abortion movement has repeatedly declared that unborn human life has no value, many young people have followed the erroneous logic and concluded ...