Posted on 05/07/2020 12:20:48 PM PDT by DadOfFive
For the first time in 4 years, Americans are living longer lives, according to recent data from the CDCs National Center for Health Statistics. Life expectancy for Americans increased by 0.1 year, from 78.6 years in 2017 to 78.7 years in 2018. The increase was largely due to declines in lung cancer mortality, infant mortality, and deaths from unintentional injuries such as drug overdoses and accidents.
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Genetics versus environment—it’s a crap shoot.
“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.
Sorry, when I went back in I see it wants you to log in. Just google “top cause of death USA”.
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.
where’s the number for abortions?
that number fails because it cannot predict medical advancements in the future, when they occur, and how they will benefit those currently alove, whether or not they can get them, when they become mainstream care procedures or drugs, etc...
needless to say as advancements continue those older life expectancy estimates get more and more inaccurate
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.
For those born in 1950 and who are now 70, their expected remaining years of life are 15.6 for white Americans and 14.9 years for black Americans—7/10ths of a year difference. In 1950 a white baby was expected to live 7.4 more years on average than a black baby. So I think we are making progress. As for infant mortality, a certain percentage is from things like genetic abnormalities that can’t be helped, but it could be reduced further—the Scandinavian countries have an infant mortality rate about half that of the US.
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.
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