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Recently, you may have seen a viral post going around that says 28% of Gen Z have been aborted.

It’s raised some really important conversations and awareness of the vast reach of abortion. I think it’s making young people more aware of how many friends and relatives they should have who aren’t here. 

And that’s a good thing. But what about the exact statistics? 

The sad reality is that most governments don’t care enough about the children dying in abortions every day to track their deaths closely. In the United States, for instance, the federal government allows states to report voluntarily. And guess what? A bunch of them don’t. 

It’s wild to me that what we consider to be the “most reliable” abortion data comes from the abortion industry itself – because we have no mandatory reporting we can go off of. There’s really no excuse for this. Every single child killed in abortion matters. They were not protected in life, but they should at least be counted in death. 

That’s why I’ve been advocating at Students for Life for YEARS for a National Abortion Reporting Law here in the United States. As I wrote in the Washington Times, what we don’t know about abortion CAN hurt us.

With that said, it should come as no surprise that it is very difficult to make accurate claims about the exact percentage of Gen Z we lost to abortion. Maybe the real number is 28%, as this viral post claims. That would more or less align with the United States abortion data that we have had over the last several decades. 

But we do have enough data to believe that tens of millions of children die in abortions globally every year. How do you quantify that? How do you even think about how many lives that is? You could add together the populations of more than 100 of the world’s smaller countries and not reach the global abortion death toll for one year.

Who are YOU missing? Do you even know? Siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, classmates, fellow church members, gym-goers, and friends?

Think of them when your pro-life efforts are difficult. Maybe because of YOU, someone else will have their family member or friend.

Kristan Hawkins is the President of Students for Life of America and Students for Life Action. Subscribe to The Kristan Hawkins Show HERE.