Considering China's abortion policies I would submit that they are the worst in terms of infant death rates.
Posted on 11/10/2007 9:18:10 PM PST by Santa Fe_Conservative
The rate at which infants die in the United States has dropped substantially over the past half-century, but broad disparities remain among racial groups, and the country stacks up poorly next to other industrialized nations.
In 2004, the most recent year for which statistics are available, roughly seven babies died for every 1,000 live births before reaching their first birthday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. That was down from about 26 in 1960.
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.
The United States ranks near the bottom for infant survival rates among modernized nations. A Save the Children report last year placed the United States ahead of only Latvia, and tied with Hungary, Malta, Poland and Slovakia.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
That's stunning. I mean, once the baby is OUT, he or she is a legal person (and, for that matter, a U.S. citizen, right?) I guess it confirms that abortion doesn't just mean every woman's "right" to "control her own body", it means every woman's "right" to a dead baby.
Very young. Older moms. Moms who've had fertility problems. Other complications. High risk pregnancies period.
Then there's socialized medicine's take...
Premature babies die as doctors ‘won’t even try’ to save them
Guess the left thinks that's better :(
Bingo!!!! We have the most advanced neonatology units in the world, and we try to save preemies, very often successfully. Statistics often conceal more than they reveal.
Benjamin Disraeli
What the NYT fails to mention either on purpose or ignorance is the way countries report infant deaths vary greatly from the USA.
International infant mortality rates: bias from reporting differences.
From 2002:
“Recently released statistics on the infant mortality rate in the Western hemisphere yielded an odd conclusions — Cuba’s infant mortality rate, 16 6.0 per 1,000, is now lower than the U.S. infant mortality rate, at 7.2 per 1,000. Given Cuba’s poverty level, its 6.0 rate is very impressive, but is it accurate to say that Cuba now has an infant mortality rate lower than the United States? No.....
Why? Because the United States also easily has the most intensive system of
emergency intervention to keep low birth weight and premature infants alive
in the world. The United States is, for example, one of only a handful countries that keeps detailed statistics on early fetal mortality — the survival rate of infants who are born as early as the 20th week of gestation.
How does this skew the statistics? Because in the United States if an infant is born weighing only 400 grams and not breathing, a doctor will likely spend lot of time and money trying to revive that infant. If the infant does not survive — and the mortality rate for such infants is in excess of 50 percent — that sequence of events will be recorded as a live birth and then a death.
In many countries, however, (including many European countries) such severe medical intervention would not be attempted and, moreover, regardless of whether or not it was, this would be recorded as a fetal death rather than a live birth. That unfortunate infant would never show up in infant mortality statistics.”
http://www.overpopulation.com/articles/2002/cuba-vs-the-united-states-on-infant-mortality/
This reporter is a dunce.
How hard is it to connect the dots that because we have more neocare beds our infant mortality will be higher.
How many countries spend several $100,000 to try and save an extreme premmie as a routine practice ?
Is this about the deaths of unwanted children that made it past Planned Parenthood or a support article suggesting that with fewer “unplanned births” there would be a better survival rate? Could there be a correlation between the 70% of black children being born out of wedlock and the high death rate?
Teaching young people that the government will raise your children and subsidize you for having them seems not to be working out as planned. But, they were so caring when they passed the legislation.
Perhaps, a little more on parenting and personal responsibility, with a lot less on activism and a hell of a lot less on me, me, me would change these statistics.
Are abortions included? Procedurally or otherwise.
Considering China's abortion policies I would submit that they are the worst in terms of infant death rates.
Let me guess ... did anyone mention illegal aliens?
As a corollary, watch for Headline Coverage of Medical Error stats in Hospitals in the not too distant future. In our area, one large system will soon begin self-reporting of sentinel events.
I truly doubt that will impact on the numbers of wealthy foreigners who regularly check in to major NY Medical Centers for procedures. But I could be wrong.
Your point of view is as much speculation as mine.
Perhaps these “empowered” female doctors feel they have a right to decide which babies live and which babies die.
Or, maybe these female doctors are providing a lower standard of care because they have to pick up their own kids from daycare and just can’t do it all.
We need a study of the infant mortality rate that compares female to male doctors to be sure.
You’re absolutely right. The US has a great, well, I suppose the word would be ‘gift,’ for pursuing higher risk pregnancies and deliveries. Of course more babies survive, but unfortunately more don’t make it, and that drives our numbers up.
US Among Worst in World for Infant Death
National Prematurity Awareness Week
ABC News chose to print a county map of Tennessee with the story. The Associated Press gave it the original title. The NY Times and ABC News declined to change the title. And the drive by media wonders why it's losing its credibility?
Memphis is in Shelby County ....Many illegal aloiens there as well as West Memphis, AR..the big Children’s hospital where sick babies would be taken or new babies would be born would be in Memphis...so the parents could live in AR or another TN county...
“Hispanics” are usually called “white” in the spot that asks for race...
We cant get an accurate count on illegal aliens for crime etc because perps are called white instead of Hispanic etc..
I dont know why the reporters picked on TN other than they wanted to slant the story and make the “white” population look bad or neglectful, etc...They could have used LA or NY or Dallas...
Women and children hit hardest.
I agree. The US does not have good infant mortality standings because we have amongst the best premature treatments in the world. The reason is that we try to save more babies at younger ages than most other countries would even try. These skewered statistics are widely cited in the media and by politicians across the world and here in the US. FYI:
http://www.overpopulation.com/articles/2002/cuba-vs-the-united-states-on-infant-mortality/
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