The Life Expectancy Lie

Scene from the movie The Killing Fields (1984) when Westerners condemned the mass baby and people killings in Asia, apparently needed to cull the population.

In 2023, about 3.6 million babies were born in the USA. But just over 1 million fetuses were aborted that year. That means around 22% of American babies conceived were killed in the womb. If we included these aborted children in the national life expectancy average, life expectancy in the USA would drop from 79 years to 62.

In other words, We...