58 Babies Were Killed in Abortions in My Hometown Last Year

The tree-lined neighborhood of my home state of Ohio was idyllic, a lovely little slice of Americana. For the violence of abortion to be endured by the women and children there is truly heartbreaking.

While paging through abortion statistics, I came across a statistic that stopped me cold in my tracks.

It was a chart which showed the number of resident abortions by zip code. I quickly checked the zip code I had grown up in. I found that there were 58 unborn children in my hometown neighborhood who had died by abortion in 2024.

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58 precious lives lost. 58 souls who never got a chance to hold their mother’s hand.  58 babies who would never grow up. The equivalent of three kindergarten classes, wiped out by abortion.

Part of my beloved neighborhood has been lost to abortion. That deeply saddens me.

Still, it is when abortion becomes profoundly personal that real change can happen. It is one thing to think about the thousands lost in one state to abortion. It is quite another to ponder the lives lost in one’s own neighborhood.

I now make my home in Pennsylvania, but I will be forever tied to the Buckeye State. I am hoping the tide will change there and more women will discover that there has to be a better path than abortion.

LifeNews.com Note: Maria Gallagher is the Legislative Director and Political Action Committee Director for the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation and she has written and reported for various broadcast and print media outlets, including National Public Radio, CBS Radio, and AP Radio.

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