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Holly Richardson: Millions of abortions are a tragedy, not a statistic

Joseph Stalin is reputed to have said, “A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.”

Tens of millions of babies’ lives have been lost in the genocide we call abortion since Roe v Wade passed. Some estimates put the number as high as 54 million in the United States alone. Globally, the numbers are more than that every year. A Lancet article published in 2016 puts the global abortion numbers at 56.3 million annually.

Several states, including Utah, have passed legislation recently that would seem to push the U.