While the liberal media race to count those who miss work for “A Day Without A Woman,” here's a number they’ll likely overlook: 21 million aborted women.

On Wednesday, International Women’s Day, feminist activists organized a nationwide strike to push liberal policy and “highlight the economic power” of women. The March 8 strike is the latest event by the Women’s March, a protest inspired by the election of President Donald Trump.

The post-inauguration Women’s March on Washington declared that (as Hillary Clinton once said), “women’s rights are human rights.” But while the event claimed to represent “all” women, the organizers rejected pro-life groups as partners and dismissed pro-life women with a pro-abortion platform. (The approved partners boasted hundreds of millions in donations from liberal billionaire George Soros.)

But not only does the Women’s March, along with “A Day Without A Woman,” overlook pro-life women, but it also blatantly disregards the millions of women violently destroyed in the womb.

According to the U.S. government’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the United States has performed more than 44 million abortions from 1970, when New York and three other states legalized abortion, to 2013, the most recent year for which the CDC has released abortion numbers.

Since women make up roughly 49% of the U.S. birthrate population, that means more than 21 million women will miss work today because their lives were cut short by abortion.

21 million. That’s more than twice the population of New York City and even more than the entire state of New York.

That’s more people than the population of countries like Cuba (11.4 million), Switzerland (8.3 million), Ireland (4.7 million) and just 3 million fewer than Australia (24 million).

While the CDC reports more than 44 million abortions from 1970 to 2013, that number is very conservative. Central health agencies voluntarily provide abortion statistics, and many states refuse to participate. Just for the 2013 CDC report released in November, California, Maryland and New Hampshire declined to report abortion numbers. In fact, California hasn’t reported numbers since 1998 – and could arguably perform more abortions than any other state because of its size and population.

The Guttmacher Institute (GI), once associated with Planned Parenthood, also releases separate statistics reported by abortionists. Since 1973, the year the Supreme Court legalized abortion in Roe v. Wade, GI counted more than 50 million abortions, according to National Right to Life.

As America’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood is responsible for roughly 7.5 million abortions since 1970.

To the liberal media: Look around you and see what it looks like today when women don't show up for work. Then also realize, that happens not just today, but every day. Every single day because of the atrocity of abortion.

Number of U.S. Abortions Reported to CDC 1970 – 2013: 2013: 664,435

2012: 699,202

2011: 730,322

2010: 765,651

2009: 784,507

2008: 825,564

2007: 827,609

2006: 846,181

2005: 820,151

2004: 839,226

2003: 848,163

2002: 854,122

2001: 853,485

2000: 857,475

1999: 861,789

1998: 884,273

1997: 1,186,039

1996: 1,225,937

1995: 1,210,883

1994: 1,267,415

1993: 1,330,414

1992: 1,359,146

1991: 1,388,937

1990: 1,429,247

1989: 1,396,658

1988: 1,371,285

1987: 1,353,671

1986: 1,328,112

1985: 1,328,570

1984: 1,333,521

1983: 1,268,987

1982: 1,303,980

1981: 1,300,760

1980: 1,297,606

1979: 1,251,921

1978: 1,157,776

1977: 1,079,430

1976: 988,267

1975: 854,853

1974: 763,476

1973: 615,831

1972: 586,760

1971: 485,816

1970: 193,491 TOTAL: 44,620,944 U.S. MEN AND WOMEN ABORTED 49% OF TOTAL: 21,864,262 U.S. WOMEN ABORTED

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Methodology: MRC Culture used Table 2 from the 2005 CDC Abortion Surveillance Report for the years 1970 to 2005. For 2006 to 2013, MRC Culture looked at each year’s individual CDC Abortion Surveillance Report.

Editor’s Note: MRC Business Staff Writer and Research Analyst Aly Nielsen contributed to this report.