Posted on 11/01/2006 3:50:00 PM PST by MadIvan
"Thanks, but reporting differences from country to country make most of those statistics less than reliable."
I get your point - but I'd think the difference most probably is marginal, if not minimal, since a murder is a murder is a murder, and so is a rape. These things tend to get reported just the same, I suppose.
"It's much like the statistics on baby deaths, we consider an infant who breathes a few breaths to be a live birth because we immediately put it on a ventilator, the Europeans call it a still birth."
Really ?
It's like partial-birth abortions, then. AFAIK you cannot have one here, and I'm not sure even hard-core feminists would tocuh the subject with a ten-foot pole, but I was shocked when my American wife told me people were protesting FOR it in the United States.
Only radical the radical feminists (mostly lesbians)and other members of the far left support partial birth abortion. Partial birth abortion is seldom practiced here, but it is held up as the reason to legally strike down laws restricting abortion in other ways. But yes, infant mortality rates are recorded far differently here than they are in Europe. In the US, every effort is made to save an infant, even severely handicapped babies, including anacephalic babies (without a brain). In Europe that doesn't happen, they would be allowed to die a natural death, or even helped to die. In Europe, these infants are not counted as live births.
It is my guess that far more rapes are reported in the US than in European countries, as well. For instance, date rape, which is not recognized as rape by Muslims. That has been a big problem on US campuses because Muslim men think that it is ok to rape an infidel woman. They claim that they are asking for it by the way they dress and drink alcohol.
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