Worst Day

I think that most Americans think the worst day in our history is 9/11--Sept. 11, 2001, when 3000 Americans were killed in the terror attack. They are mistaken, as a worse day was 9/17--Sept. 17, 1862, when 4000 Americans were killed on the field at Antietam in the Civil War. All the Americans killed on 9/17 were soldiers, as there were no civilians killed despite the fact that some of the fighting was in the town of Sharpsburg, Md.

Still, even 9/17 was not our worst day. Between Jan. 1973 (the infamous Roe v Wade decision) and 2000 we averaged over 4000 abortions a day. As the abortion mills generally did not operate on Sundays and holidays, it is certain that there were days when well over 4000 abortions eliminated the lives of unborn American children.