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National Right to Life estimates that the toll of unborn life taken since 1973, the year the Supreme Court legalized abortion on demand in Roe v. Wade, now stands at an incredible 40,668,335 abortions. Though, thankfully, the number of abortions has been declining in recent years, surpassing the 40 million mark represents a tragic and deeply troubling milestone to close the 20th century.
The tally is derived by taking the most authoritative count up through the last year these figures were released-1996-extrapolating from the best information available, and adding the "undercount" that is acknowledged to exist.
According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI), Planned Parenthood's special research affiliate, from 1973 through 1996, there were a combined 34,171,820 abortions in the United States. (One good piece of news is that AGI reported 1,365,730 abortions for 1996, down from a high of 1,608,600 that was reported in ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Over 40 Million Unborn Babies Killed Since Roe.(Alan Guttmacher...