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Who were they? 

I’m sure most web surfers ran across the story on how Heisman Trophy winner, Tim Tebow might have been just another abortion statistic if his mom had listened to doctors and aborted her son because of an amoebic infection during pregnancy.  Pam Tebow said no and her husband agreed.  Thus, the Tebows gave birth to a healthy baby boy.

Fr. Thomas Euteneuer has a provocative reflection on who the missing in our country might be - since the United States legalized abortion some forty years ago.  It is estimated 1/3 of all Americans conceived since 1973 have been lost to abortion.

The following numbers are based on the actual government estimates of the professions represented in America. So then, who have we lost to abortion?

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  • 2 US Presidents

  • 7 Supreme Court Justices

  • 102 US Senators and 589 Congressmen

  • 8,123 Federal, district and local court judges

  • 31 Nobel Prize laureates

  • 328 Olympic medalists including 123 Gold medalists

  • 6,092 professional athletes

  • 134,841 physicians and surgeons

  • 392,500 registered nurses

  • 70,669 priests, ministers, rabbis and imams including

  • 6,852 priests and 11,010 nuns (vocations “shortage”?)

  • 1,102,443 teachers (K-12)

  • 553,821 truck drivers

  • 224,518 maids and housekeepers

  • 336,939 janitors

  • 134,028 farmers and ranchers

  • 109,984 police officers and sheriff’s deputies

  • 39,477 firefighters

  • 17,221 barbers, and

  • 24,450,000…women (the gender of roughly half of all children aborted). - Spirit and Life

I believe it was Padre Pio who once told a penitent that the son she had aborted would have been pope.

(Thanks to John Mallon for the tip.)