As I was leafing through the August/2006 copy of the National Geographic Magazine I noticed the statistics showing the odds of dying of any cause in the United States. The odds are as follows in descending order:
Heart disease: 1 in 5
Cancer: 1 in 7
Stroke: 1 in 24
Motor vehicle accident: 1 in 84 Suicide: 1 in 119
Falling: 1 in 218
Firearm assault: 1 in 314
Pedestrian accident: 1 in 626
Drowning: 1 in 1,008
Motorcycle accident: 1 in 1,020
Fire or smoke: 1 in 1,113
Bycycling accident: 1 in 4,919
Air/space accident: 1 in 5,051
Accidental firearm discharge: 1 in 5,134
Accidental electrocution: 1 in 9,968
Alcohol poisoning: 1 in 10,048
Hot weather: 1 in 13,729
Hornet wasp, or bee sting: 1 in 56,789
Legal execution: 1 in 62,468
Lightning: 1 in 79,746
Earthquake: 1 in 117,127
Flood: 1 in 144,156
Fireworks discharge: 1 in 340,733
What I noticed also is that the odds of dying as a result of an abortion was missing from the report. This prompted me to send the following comment by E-mail to the magazine:
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While leafing through the latest issue of your magazine I noticed that your statistics showing the odds of dying of any cause in the U.S. is 1 in 5 for heart disease, 1 in 7 for cancer, 1 in 24 for stroke, and so on. How about the odds of dying of abortion? I read elsewhere that it is 1 in 3. If that is correct, then the highest cause of death would be abortion instead of heart disease. Is your omission due to accident or design? Are not the unborn members of the human race? Most abortions are performed when there is a beating heart, brain waves, a torso, hands and feet. Isn't this sufficient evidence that the unborn are in fact human beings. Shoudn't their deaths [1.5 million per year] be included in the statistics?
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Odds of Dying of Any Cause
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