Comparison of the number of abortions to other causes of death

There were approximately 926,200 abortions were performed in 2014, according to Guttmacher Institute.

See an abortion counter (Real-time abortion counters based on the most current statistics for the number of abortions in the US and Worldwide)

Now compare these numbers to the 15 leading causes of death in 2009 (preliminary data from the CDC AND to the number of American war casualties (from the Navy Dept. Library)

Cause of Death 2016	Deaths
Abortion	926,200
Diseases of heart	635,260
Malignant neoplasms	598,038
Chronic lower respiratory diseases	154,596
Cerebrovascular diseases	142,142
Accidents (unintentional injuries)	161,374
Alzheimer’s disease	116,103
Diabetes mellitus	80,058
Influenza and pneumonia	51,537
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis	50,046
Intentional self-harm (suicide)	44, 965
Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis	40,326
Essential hypertension and hypertensive renal disease	32,200
Assault (homicide)	17,793

War	Deaths
Abortion in 2014 alone	926,200
Revolutionary War	4,435
War of 1812	2,260
Mexican War	13,283
Civil War	364,511
Spanish/American	2,446
World War I	116,516
World War II	405,399
Korean War	36,574
Vietnam	58,209
Persian Gulf War	382
Operation Iraqi Freedom (as of December 2011)	4,421
War in Afghanistan to present	22,266
Operation Enduring Freedom (as of December 2011)	1,846
Operation Inherent Resolve	125