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The First in a Series of Attacks on Pro-Life Policies
- From National Right to Life
By National Right to Life - Protecting the Unborn
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Time to rethink mission statement?
Who knows, maybe this is a good time for the NRLC to rethink it's purpose. I recently read this article (link is at the end)
ct. 15, 2008 -- The U.S. ranks 29th worldwide in infant mortality, tying Slovakia and Poland but lagging behind Cuba, the CDC reports.
The CDC's latest estimates for international rankings are based on 2004 data. But as of 2005, the numbers haven't changed much since 2000.
Nearly seven U.S. babies die out of every 1,000 live births. More than 28,000 American babies die before their first birthday.
"The U.S. infant mortality rate is higher than rates in most other developed countries," note CDC researchers Marian F. MacDorman, PhD, and T.J. Mathews. "The relative position of the United States in comparison to countries with the lowest infant mortality rates appears to be worsening."
What's going on? Racial and ethnic disparities clearly play a role. In 2005, for every 1,000 live births, the infant mortality rate was:
* 13.63 among non-Hispanic black Americans
* 5.76 among non-Hispanic white Americans
Premature birth is a factor in more than two-thirds of infant deaths. From 2000 to 2005, the U.S. preterm birth rate went up from 11.6% to 12.7%.
Rather than spend so much time, energy and resources (both human and financial) on stopping women from having abortions, why not dedicate yourselves to helping solve some of the problems above? There are millions of women wanting to have babies and are facing real obstacles and traumas as the numbers above show.
Just something to consider.
The whole article can be found here.
http://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20081015/infant-mortality-us-ranks-29th
- mangueken
February 27, 2009 12:34PM
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Misleading terminology
Why do you refer to "the U.S. 'population assistance' program"? I don't know what that program is. The Mexico City Policy applies/applied to federal funding to NGOs. It was announced by Reagan at the 1984 UN International Conference on Population, so maybe that is the source of the mix-up. I don't believe there is any specific program with funding for "population assistance," whatever that means, but if you know of one I'd be very interested to see some details.
I also think that Johnson's statements are misleading, particularly the reference to "groups that promote abortion as a method of population control." Any time someone makes a choice about getting pregnant, not getting pregnant, carrying a pregnancy to term, or not carrying the pregnancy to term, they are doing something that controls the population. Granted, these decisions are on an individual level, so it may seem like no one really has "control" -- but that's the level on which NGOs providing OB/GYN and prenatal services would be working, too. You make it sound as though there is some kind of conspiracy to abort a quota of fetuses -- this is obviously ridiculous.
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March 1, 2009 12:45PM
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First in a series of attack on Pro Life Policies?
G-d willing, let's hope so.
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April 1, 2009 11:10PM
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