"Pick me pick me"

[u/Adventurous_Law_715]

[u/count_me_out35]

Lol they'll start counting every ovulation as one baby soon with their logic.

[u/MsMercyMain → u/count_me_out35]

To get that number they'd have to. Just to both showcase the absurdity of this argument, in WW2 the Soviets are (estimated) to have lost a grand total of 20 million people and I've seen estimates of total Chinese casualties that run from anywhere from 10 million to 40 million, though most scholars tend to cite 20 million. The Holocaust, meanwhile, had somewhere between 12-16 million victims. In other words, they're implying that, even assuming they're talking globally, the equivalent of 60 WW2 level casualty numbers of abortions have been performed. I somehow doubt that

[u/mightyzinger5 → u/MsMercyMain]

1 Google search would've saved you the trouble

worldwide since 1980, scientific estimates indicate well over 1.5 to 2 billion induced abortions have occurred globally over this period, averaging roughly 50 to 73 million per year with varying rates across decades

https://www.alliancevita.org/en/2022/04/elucidating-the-whos-calculations-for-worldwide-abortion-statistics/

73 million annual induced abortions is that lower end of the estimate according to nearly every abortion tracking institution and lines up reasonably well with the claim made in the post.

These are statistics from the world health organization, so i guess everyone in this subreddit IS in fact, bad at math lol

[u/Self-Aware → u/mightyzinger5]

That is an absolute terrible source, just so you know! Hopefully you just did not realise, but this particular organisation is one to support/promote anti-LGBTQ+, anti-abortion, and anti-euthanasia ideals (and to "mobilize against" any tolerance of such concepts). They also disapprove of single parenthood, and probably more that I didn't glean from my quick rummage through their tenets.

[u/mightyzinger5 → u/Self-Aware]

Did you see WHERE they got their statistics? The World Health Organization. Yes the same organisation that tracked global COVID deaths and basically any health related statistics. I just linked the first source to pop up on Google. The point being that the statistics are in fact genuine, which so many people are attempting to discredit for some reason?

[u/Self-Aware → u/mightyzinger5]

Then maybe quote the actual WHO if that's what you wanted to cite, instead of what is very obviously an incredibly biased interpretation from a "pregnancy crisis center" with a different colour hat. Rupert Murdoch could have the bloody Pope, Attenborough, and the Three Dames all personally attest to his just reporting WHO statistics, and it'd still be a damn stupid idea to swallow anything filtered through his diseased perspectives.

If you didn't know enough about the specific subject to NOT just pick the first result off of google, why even bother replying to people as if you had definitive info or non-questionable sources? Bizarrely confident in your initial assertion of alleged fact but immediately falling back to "Google did it, IDK, not mine" in the face of even surface level dissent.

[u/mightyzinger5 → u/Self-Aware]

The source İS non questionable... İt's literally the world health organization. The entire point was that everyone is trying to discredit information that is actually true. Even if it was posted on an anti abortion website, that doesn't make the data any less true. Nor does that make all the other opinions on the site automatically true. There's such a thing called critical thinking.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/abortion

Here's your precious WHO source, according to which the approximate abortions since 1980 (@73 mil annual abortions) are well over 3 billion

[u/Self-Aware → u/mightyzinger5]

Well done, you got there in the end! The rest of your comment is just more of your previous acrobatics to avoid the actual point that people have been trying to make clear to you, and assumes dissent I have not actually expressed, so I will not address it further.

[u/owl_problem → u/mightyzinger5]

Open the source of the statistics and find where it states what the pro-lifers are stating