[Texasforever]

hopeless case when thousands of infants and young children die daily for want of cheap, basic care.

The only daily deaths of children in the thousands are in abortion clinics. You just lost any credibility you may have had on this subject.

[RBroadfoot]

" The only daily deaths of children in the thousands are in abortion clinics. You just lost any credibility you may have had on this subject."

Nonsense. Thousands of children die daily from diarreal diseases, measles, pneumonia, cholera, malaria, etc., which are inexpensively preventable or treatable. The number is inherently imprecise, but it's around 25,000 dead kids/day. The cost of preventing the majority of these deaths is about $100 per child through age 10.

http://www.child-survival.org/stateof.html
http://www.childinfo.org/cmr/revis/db2.htm

Note that this does not include HIV/AIDS, which is much more expensive and problematic, just the diseases that affluent nations have conquered for the past 60-100 years.