Why the Mortality Rate for Black Infants Is So High

National Review ^ | 07/03/2020 | By DMITRI SOLZHENITSYN

[Blood of Tyrants]

Abortion claims 40% of black babies.

[antidemoncrat]

“Why the Mortality Rate for Black Infants Is So High”

Something else to blame white people for?

[Alberta's Child]

Planned Parenthood has a great approach for lowering “black infant mortality” as it’s measured now.

[central_va]

Margret Sanger could not be reached for comment.

[cquiggy]

Smoking blunts laced with crack cocaine up until the day of birth was not factored into the study.

[Lizavetta]

I don't take any article on this subject seriously when they leave out the four biggest factors in negative outcomes in pregnancy:

Obesity
Smoking
Alcohol abuse
Drug abuse

Not even mentioned.

[piasa]

Oh, the irony of someone named Solzhenitsyn penning an article for National Review that cites the Center for American Rights as an authority on anything...

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Will Margaret Sanger’s Planned Parenthood use this to justify killing even more Black children? They were just going to die anyway, right?

[CondoleezzaProtege]

The issues you bring up are all related to poverty that nobody should grow complacent about. Let alone in a first world country. In the end: everyone is impacted when a whole group of people are falling behind. And social cohesion and neighborly efforts to combat these problems are needed if we don’t want enlarged state taking over.

I’m quite appalled by American maternal death rates. (This also involves non-black women) Something I learned about more while living in Europe and meeting people who were able to compare their pregnancy experiences in both countries.

[Cloverfarm]

This is so sad.

As far as poor conditions at home ... one of my black co-workers and his wife were thrilled to be having another baby a couple of years ago. Both parents were smokers. I’m not sure if hte mom was able to quit completely before the birth. The baby was premature. She died of SIDS during the holidays.

We had to take up a collection at work because the family could not afford the baby’s funeral.

[arthurus]

340 per thousand is NOT a real number nor is 217. At best someone left out a decimal point.

[Alberta's Child]

Was it a real number in 1850?

[arthurus]

Possibly. 300 years ago parents did not invest emotion in their young children because too many of them died. Women also tended to have more than 5 for the same reason.Many families had 10-20 children for maybe three or four that would grow up.

[Campion]

I think Dmitri is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s grandson.

[zerosix]

Some other “politically incorrect facts” that were left out or the researchers put blinders on when asking questions:
A. black girls have at least two (2) children by age 16;
B. the girls became sexually active around age nine (9), not so much their idea but the males in their families or neighbors;
C. have had many partners during their child-bearing years and thus have had numerous sexually transmitted diseases; and
D. black girls and women consume alcohol, tobacco and drugs at higher rates than white girls and women, though the latter seemingly are in a race to catch up!

[euram]

I read years ago that a French pediatrician studied this question of low birth weight and found that the gestation period for blacks is approximately 2 weeks shorter than for whites. The doctor proposed that the issue of low birth weight could be treated by starting pre-natal care earlier than white women need it. The physician was denounced and shunned for his “racist” suggestion that black women and white women were different and needed different types of care.

[eyeamok]

That’s nothing, Planned Parenthood Kills Millions a Year!

[Tennessee Nana]

you noticed too ???

I read most of it to see the drug variable but it wasn’t mentioned for death or low birth weight etc...

nor was fetal alcohol syndrome...

[pabianice]

87% are fatherless.