It had to do with the number of abortions that take place in the US every year - over 600,000 per year.
This number shocked us because everyone in the room thought we had heard everything about this issue, but tacitly assumed a much smaller scale. In my head Bill Clinton's quote about it being "safe, legal and rare" still ring out.
It kind of smacked us in the face to realize we were talking about an issue for years without even realizing how often it happens. Maybe you had to be there but it really adjusted a lot of people's views.
Maybe it was especially powerful because the fact was dropped on us by someone who wasn't part of the debate, they weren't a prolifer but someone who "could see both sides"
