Aren't there some stats that show that single women lose their babies more? I wonder what the stats are for white, single mothers????
Ya think that meth and cocaine have anything to do with this?
I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that the reason our infant mortality rate is so high is due to the proponderance of illegitamate births to very young girls.
Uh-huh.
I think that anyone with a room temp IQ can get a job at the NYT, 5,000 abortions a day, and somehow we have a high child death rate?
If anything their numbers are low..gee..wonder why..?
Good old NYT. The very first sentence contradicts the deceptive headline.
“Babies born to black mothers died at two and a half times the rate of those born to white mothers, according to the CDC figures.”
My guess is that if you extracted the “single unmarried female” from those statistics, you would find three things;
(1)the infant mortality rates when the mother is a single unmarried female would be much, much closer, among the different racial categories; (2)the occurrence of the single unmarried female block among mother who are black women would be larger - as a % of all black women, than it is among white women, and (3) if that category (single unmarried female) was removed from white-female and black-female groups - leaving only married females, the resulting rates of infant mortality would also be closer.
The single unmarried female who gets pregnant not only penalizes herself, economically, but every negative economic impact it places on her accrues, in some fashion, to her health and the child’s health as well.
The public policy problem that needs work is not racial, but moral - the young single unmarried mother.
Women doctors, their ranks growing, transform medicine
October 2, 2006
Over the last quarter-century, women have entered the field of medicine in unprecedented numbers, changing not only its face but its character.
As they have dealt with the competing demands of professional and personal life, many women doctors have brought a different approach to the examining room and refused to work the schedules that had long been a badge of honor. (snip)
Perhaps if nearly every instance of infanticide perpetrated by the mother weren’t written of as death due to SIDS, and scuh murderesses were held accountable to their crimes, such would not be the case.
Alas, such is not to be, in the current legal/medical/psychological system which holds violence to be a strictly male phenomenon, and any violence committed by women to be ultimately caused by men.
It’s Bush’s fault! There! The secret is out!
The only reason that the US has a higher infant death ration is because we try to save any viable live birth that other countries call a still birth. It’s all a matter of semantics.
The US tries saving babies born weighing as little as 10 OUNCES.
Name me another country that tries to do this.
One of the reasons that blacks have higher infant mortality rates is because babies are not supposed to have babies...
I would like to know how many unborn have been killed by abortion per 1000?
And just how many of those other industrialized nations have a similar diversity of racial groups as the United States?
When abortion is included the true story will look even worse.
I know the infant mortality rate has dropped since they quit the ridiculous habit of refusing to allow pregnant woman to gain more than 17-20 pounds.
50 million dead from abortion alone. That has to be a leading cause of infant mortality in the US.