America’s great sin: Abortion and the celebrated death of babies. So far there’s been nearly 650,000 abortions reported in the U.S. this year, and given that today is the 254th day of the year, that means that every day there’s nearly as many abortions as there were victims on the day of the 9/11 attacks. It’s also worth noting that some jurisdictions don’t report abortion numbers, so the real totals are probably much higher