LIFE ISSUES: The world’s greatest killing machine*

So who is responsible for the most deaths ever? The communists? The Nazis? Armies at war? None of these. We now have the rough figures on the cause of the most deaths, and it is not from soldiers, dictators or criminals, but from doctors and those involved in the medical services. Abortion, it appears, is the world’s biggest killer. World War II took some 60 million lives. But it seems that if we put together all those who died from wars, the numbers would not surpass those who have been…

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