I recently perused the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) statistics on life expectancy in the U.S., and I was surprised to see that a baby born today is likely to live for only 77.8 years (75.1 for males; and, 80.5 for females). I thought (that with all the medical advances) it would have been higher. However, the Bible is exactly right where, in Psalm 90:10, it says, “As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, or if due to strength, eighty years.”
Then I happened to notice another statistic: the infant mortality rate. In the U.S., there are 5.0 infant deaths per 1,000 live births. That means that in the latest reporting year, we had 18,026 infant deaths per 3,605,201 live births.
But wait: We also had 619,591 abortion deaths (which the CDC does not count). When we add these the 18,036 that they do count, we get 637,617 infant deaths per 3,605,201 live births. That computes to a true infant mortality rate of 176.8 infant deaths per 1,000 live births.
It’s hard to believe, but abortion multiplies the reported infant morality rate (of 5.0 infant deaths per 1,000 live births) by 35 times (to 176.8 infant deaths per 1,000 live births).