Average human life expectancy is calculated by dividing the number of people in a given generation into all the years lived by that generation. Textbooks and journal articles today take as axiomatic that the unborn do not count when determining the divisor. They count all people born alive instead of all people conceived. When the fate of the unborn was unalterable, it was a reasonable and convenient shortcut to omit the unborn. Today it is a profound deceit. The tacit presupposition that the unborn are not persons has a marked effect upon what is “truth.” …The commonly held belief that life expectancy is increasing in the U.S. is rendered utterly false when the personhood of the unborn is considered.
Excerpt from "Average Life Expectancy, 'What Is Truth?'"
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