The Culture of Life
From CBS/AP:
U.S. Ranks Low On Newborn SurvivalReport Finds One Of Highest Infant Death Rates Among Developed Nations
America may be the world’s superpower, but its survival rate for newborn babies ranks near the bottom among developed nations.
Among 33 industrialized nations examined in a new report, the United States tied with Hungary, Malta, Poland and Slovakia with a death rate of nearly 5 per 1,000 babies. Only Latvia had higher mortality figures, with 6 per 1,000, according to the report by the U.S.-based Save the Children.
As SusanG over at Daily Kos says:
I’m waiting for the Christianist conservative right to ramp up a coordinated, astroturfing, indignant, fear-mongering, self-righteous campaign on behalf of infants in response to the release of yesterday’s report from Save the Children indicating that the U.S. is failing to protect very-recent-embryos - newborns to the rest of us - from dying.Somehow I sense this issue will not get the traction the overheated fetus debate gets with the fundamentalist crowd. There’s just something not quite as alluring about discussing health care provisions for pregnant moms and their offspring compared with telling your neighbor what to do with her womb.
Love the camouflage on the kid. This photo should have the caption, "Nooooo, please don't send me to Iraq!!!!!!"