55 Innocent Children Killed Every Day According to the Latest Abortion Report from the Ohio Department of Health!
The Ohio abortion death report for 2019 has just been released and our hearts are breaking. While there was a very slight dip in the number of lives lost through abortion, I must ask the obvious question. “Would the DeWine Administration consider a 2% drop in overall Covid-19 cases a huge success?” Of course not! We expect a statement from the Governor explaining how he will address this devastating loss of human life in Ohio. The Governor holds a daily Covid-19 press conference where he continues to point to the number of deaths caused either by a co-morbidity with the virus present or from the virus. His continued emphasis is on keeping all Ohio citizens safe. For this we commend him. The October 1st Covid-19 report shows since the start of the pandemic there have been 4,817 confirmed or probable deaths since January. The 2019 abortion report released the same day, reveals that 20,102 healthy people died a horrific death at the hands of “medical doctors” who operate courtesy of the DeWine/Husted’s Ohio Department of Health which allows many to continue their deadly work without valid licenses (a fact that is well known by Governor Mike DeWine and Lt. Governor Husted!)
Cleveland Right to Life (CRTL) will be looking into what actually caused the slight dip in abortion numbers. The dip is a good thing, but we need to find out what factors were actually responsible for the decrease and why the percentage was not much higher.
From an initial analysis, one statistic in the 2019 report that is especially troubling is the number of black babies who died from abortion in Cuyahoga County. In Cuyahoga County, the black population represents about 30% of the total population, but the number of black babies who died from abortion in the County (2863) is more than double the number of white babies who died (1052). This genocide is occurring right in front of our eyes, as we sit back and “regulate” how, when, and where the slaughter may occur!
CRTL considers the 20,102 total deaths by abortion in Ohio in 2019 to be a devastating failure on the part of the Legislature and the Administration. Picking away at the edges of these deadly laws with regulation after regulation will not get us to the final goal--to end abortion in Ohio. Taking the total number of Covid related deaths this year since the first reported death in March, there has been an average of 24 deaths per day. Compare that with the average daily abortion deaths of 55 (more than double the Covid deaths) and imagine Mike DeWine and Jon Husted holding a daily press conference exposing the daily death count of babies due to abortion. It goes without saying that ALL deaths are tragic, but consider that every single abortion death could be easily prevented if the DeWine administration would but give abortion deaths the same amount of attention given to Covid-19 deaths!
CRTL is outraged by the DeWine administration’s double standard when it comes to saving the lives of our children and we demand that the Life At Conception Act (HB 413) be fast-tracked through the legislature and signed into law by Governor DeWine. We also demand that until HB 413 is signed into law, he must immediately implement the same tracking system for abortion deaths as he is using to track Covid deaths.
Please call your State Representative today and demand that HB 413 be given the Speaker’s full attention and that the committee hearing be scheduled immediately so this bill can be brought before the house for a vote. The Governor and the Lt. Governor have shut themselves off from the people they are supposed to represent and cannot be reached by phone, so please go to the general-purpose contact page to express your outrage about these preventable deaths.
Molly Smith,
President, Cleveland Right to Life
