37 years. 50 million lives lost
Those just seem like numbers until the realization of the impact dawns on you.
1973: Remembering where I was in my life then, is a staggering thought all on it’s own. How I thought. What seemed important, and what did not. Roe versus Wade was just a story in the news to me. I can’t wrap my mind around that even as I write this.
What does 50 million of anything look like? How can you comprehend a number that is almost abstract in it’s enormity until you have someway to compare the numbers. Georgia (9.7 million), Florida(18.3 million), Mississippi (2.9 million), Alabama(4.6 million), Tennessee (6.2 million), South Carolina(4.8 million), Arkansas (2.8 million), Alaska (686,000). That gives us something to work with.
And, if we still fall short of our goal to reach 50 million by a few hundred thousand, it won’t take long to reach that goal if we continue to add to that number at a rate of 4,000 per day.
So, there you go. The population of eight states (including our own) approximately give us our number. That is something we can grasp because we live in Tennessee. We have relatives in Alabama. We vacation in Florida. Now, we can see the number 50 million with skin on. Those become people in our minds, and not just a number on paper.
