In 2025, pre-born babies had just a 71% chance of survival in the womb.

That’s according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), which released a fact sheet in December detailing the need for improved “essential health care.”

What’s shocking about WHO’s report?

The organization’s number doesn’t account for unintentional injuries, ectopic pregnancies, or any other leading causes of infant mortality. That 71% survival rate—translated to a 29% death rate—only counts babies who died from “induced abortion.” In other words, a stunning 3 in 10 babies worldwide were intentionally killed in 2025.

The total death toll? At least 73 million in a single year—a full 52% of overall deaths worldwide, making abortion the leading cause of death globally.

To put that in perspective, roughly 67.1 million people died last year from causes other than abortion. Next to abortion, the highest cause of mortality was cancer, which killed 10 million.

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Apparently, though, that death toll isn’t high enough for WHO. The organization’s call for improved “essential health care” isn’t a call to save millions of lives by abolishing abortion. Nor is it even a call to expand resources that would make it easier for pregnant women to choose life. Instead, WHO declares that “essential health care” must include “comprehensive abortion care” to limit the number of “unsafe abortions.”

“Abortion is a common health intervention,” WHO’s fact sheet reads. “It is very safe when carried out using a method recommended by WHO… Lack of access to safe, timely, affordable and respectful abortion care is a critical public health and human rights issue.”

What human rights are violated by the lack of access to on-demand abortion? According to WHO, quite a few—but first and foremost is the “right to life.” Apparently, if a mother can’t “safely” kill her baby, her right to life has been infringed.

Other affected rights include “the right to benefit from scientific progress,” “the right to decide… on the number, spacing and timing of children,” and, perhaps most notably, “the right to be free from torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment”—since the miracle of birthing a child is obviously a humiliating affliction that no one should have to bear.

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Of course, all this overlooks one simple fact: Abortion is murder. There is no such thing as a safe abortion when every abortion takes the life of a human being. Nor is it the lack of abortion access that violates the basic human right to life—it’s the existence of abortion at all.

The right to life cannot be secure until abortion is abolished, once and for all. For WHO, 73 million abortions apparently isn’t enough. But for those who believe every life has dignity and worth, even one abortion is too many.