[GrandJediMasterYoda]

“The CDC also tracked a 2.3% decrease in infant mortality rates, from 579.3 infant deaths per 100,000 live births in 2017 to 566.2 in 2018.”

What about the one million babies that are murdered every year? Liberalism will always be the #1 cause of death in the USA.

[Verginius Rufus]

Apart from the deliberate killing of babies by abortion, which has undoubtedly increased greatly since abortion was legalized by the Supreme Court, the infant mortality rate has dropped from 26 per 1,000 in 1960 to under 6 per 1,000 now--a drop of about 75%. Many Third World countries today have lower infant-mortality rates than the US had in 1960 (assuming the data they report is reasonably accurate).

The life expectancy at birth in the US in 1950 was 68.2. Since that was 70 years ago, more than half the babies born in 1950 should have died by now. I doubt that is correct.

[elcid1970]

Real question because I honestly don’t know:

Is the projected life expectancy of 78+ years skewed by the number of deaths by abortion, or are the deaths of unborn innocents simply not factored in?

I’m over 70 with chronic heart disease, so I sorta got skin in the game.

[stanne]

“ “The CDC also tracked a 2.3% decrease in infant mortality rates, from 579.3 infant deaths per 100,000 live births in 2017 to 566.2 in 2018.”

What about the one million babies that are murdered every year? Liberalism will always be the #1 cause of death in the USA.”

That number is very difficult to obtain via Google. The Guttmacher institute (Misnomer) prefaces their Deliberately confusing statistics with ‘ Abortion is essential health care. Always.‘ which is itself utterly untrue. The normal state of tge uterus is pregnancy. I say that as a licensed health care professional with a science degree

“In 2016, the most recent year available, the government agency reported 623,471 abortions“

Abortion is by far the leading cause of death. The infant mortality rate is decreased by mass abortion. Yet it should be included. By all means.