Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm Thaddeus Williams.

The leading cause of death in 2025 was not heart disease or cancer.

In fact, it's something entirely preventable.

According to the World Health Organization, 73 million humans died

at the hands of a greedy abortion industry worldwide. That's the equivalent of 12 Nazi

Holocaust in a single year, more than two victims per second. That's about 10 million more casualties than cardiovascular

disease, cancer, COVID-19, wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and indeed every other cause of human

death combined in 2025. An argument you've probably heard before is often used to justify

this mass genocide.

The preborn are merely a clump of cells and therefore don't have the same right to life.

This rhetoric has a long history.

In Germany in the 1930s, Hitler and the Third Reich popularized Leibons and Virtus Leibbon, lives unworthy of life,

to justify their mass extermination of Jews dissenting Christians and anyone else they deemed

unworthy. This distinction between lives worth living and lives not worth living is always made, of course, by those who place

their own lives in the worth living category. The Tutsis in Rwanda were called Inianzi,

or cockroaches. KKK literature reduced blacks in the U.S. to quote, gorillas. The two million

victims of the Khomey Rouge

were deemed microbes who must be swept aside and smashed.

White supremacists at the Unite the Right rally spoke of, quote, anti-white vermin.

It's not a jump then to call the 73 million victims of abortion mere clumps of cells,

instead of fellow humans to be dignified and protected as lives worth living.

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