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On the recordSeptember 22, 2021
Tonight we are going to be talking about the leading causes of death in the United States. I just want to go over this because I think sometimes we become disillusioned with what is actually happening. The National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports on the leading causes of death in the United States but does not include abortion among their list of causes of death. Here is an accurate representation of the leading causes of death for 2019, which includes the number one cause of death. That is abortion. Also, deaths due to COVID in 2020 and 2021 are included for comparison. You start off with suicide or intentional self-harm, 47,511 Americans died. Influenza and pneumonia, 49,783 Americans died. Nephritis and nephrotic syndrome, kidney disease, 51,665 died from that. Diabetes, 87,647. Alzheimer's disease, 121,499 deaths. Stroke, 150,005 deaths. Chronic lower respiratory, 156,979 deaths. Accidents, 172,040 deaths. Cancer, 599,601 deaths. COVID, 656,488, and that is 18 months total. Heart disease, 659,041. And we all know about these deaths because you cannot watch TV or listen to any news when you are not constantly hearing about what people in America are dying from because it is a crisis for us. Abortion, 849,000. All the data are from one year, 2019, except for COVID.…
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Mike Kelly
Republican · Pennsylvania

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