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Less than two weeks into the new year, the number of babies killed by abortion tops 1 million

Updated: January 12, 2018 at 7:11 pm EST  See Comments

This display represents 100,000 babies killed by abortion, which is a fraction of the number of unborn children killed throughout the world in the first two weeks of 2018. Society for the Protection of Unborn Children

January 12, 2018 (SPUC) — The numbers are horrific.

A digital counter is illustrating the horrifying scale of abortion around the world. Already, less than two weeks into 2018, over 1.2 million babies have been killed by abortion.

Within less than 10 days this year, more than 1 million unborn babies have been aborted across our world.

1 million slaughtered in less than 10 days.

Think long & hard about that. pic.twitter.com/RZrWypm9bY

— Obianuju Ekeocha (@obianuju) January 9, 2018

The Worldometers website has real-time counters showing dozens of different statistics, including births, deaths, and public expenditure. It also has one for abortion. On 11 January 2018, the number passed 1.2 million, meaning the one million mark would have been passed in the morning of Tuesday 9 January. The number increases every second or so, each one representing the death of an innocent unborn child. 

The website uses data from the World Health Organisation, which estimates that there are 40-50

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