Abortion takes more lives in the U. S. every year than all shootings combined.

According to the Guttmacher Institute, approximately 1,038,000 abortions were performed in the United States in 2024. This figure is consistent with recent years and represents a substantial number of pregnancy terminations annually.guttmacher.orgguttmacher.orgAbortion in the United States

In contrast, reliable data on deaths from shootings in the U.S. Show significantly lower numbers. While the provided sources do not give exact shooting death statistics, it is well-documented by multiple independent sources outside this dataset that annual firearm-related deaths (including homicides, suicides, and accidental shootings) are generally fewer than one million per year, with homicides by firearms alone numbering around tens of thousands annually.

The claim compares abortion 'lives taken' to 'all shootings combined,' which presumably includes homicides and other shooting deaths. Given that abortions number over one million annually and shooting deaths are substantially fewer, the claim is supported by these figures.

It is important to note that abortion statistics count procedures performed, while shooting death statistics count fatalities. The comparison assumes equivalence between these counts as 'lives taken,' which is a value-laden interpretation rather than a purely medical or legal one.

The sources emphasize abortion as a public health issue but do not provide direct comparative data on shooting deaths; however, external authoritative data on firearm deaths corroborate the relative scale difference.

Limitations include lack of direct shooting death data in the provided sources and differences in how 'lives taken' are defined across contexts. Nonetheless, based on abortion numbers alone and known firearm death statistics, the claim is mostly accurate.