Some perspective...
The leading causes of death in 2020

Over 42 million abortions occurred in 2020, far surpassing the totals of people who perished as a result of the world’s leading causes of death. 
 

By comparison, communicable diseases killed more than 13 million people worldwide in 2020. About 8.2 million people worldwide lost their lives to cancer while nearly 5.1 million people and 2.5 million people succumbed to death as a result of smoking and alcohol, respectively. 
 

According to Johns Hopkins University, more than 1.8 million people worldwide died of coronavirus in 2020. (But we know it was a lot less than this, due to faulty PCR testing, and also due to any death within 26 days of a positive test being automatically labelled 'death by covid' regardless of what other factors were involved).
 

Other leading causes of death in 2020 included road traffic accident fatalities, of which there were nearly 1.4 million. Additionally, suicides are responsible for nearly 1.1 million deaths across the globe. 

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The total number of deaths worldwide in 2020, excluding abortions, was nearly 59 million.

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But if abortions were counted as a cause of death rather than just another health statistic, the global death toll in 2020 would increase to more than 100 million. 

The number of pregnancies terminated worldwide in 2020 is greater than the total number of people that succumbed to all other leading causes of death listed.
 

The year 2020 is not the first where the total number of abortions has surpassed the totals of people who died from the leading causes of death.  

As previously reported, Worldometer reported that there were about 42.4 million abortions that occurred in 2019. 

While abortion is the leading cause of death worldwide, it has also been the leading cause of death in the United States in recent years. 

According to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, 862,320 abortions were performed in the U.S. in 2017.

That same year, heart disease which is frequently cited as the leading cause of death in the U.S., took the lives of 647,457 Americans, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

In 2017, the total number of deaths in the United States, excluding abortions, was 2,813,503.

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Already in 2021, Worldometer shows that there have been over 435,000 abortions since the beginning of the new year worldwide as of January 4th. 

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