[wagglebee]

There is a cost-benefit ratio for everything. I'll probably be considered a genocidal maniac, but if it's costing enormous sums of money to save someone else's baby the benefit isn't worth the cost to me. Sorry, it isn't.

Are you aware that the overwhelming number of people having babies have health insurance?

I know the argument, "but that baby may have grown up and discovered a cure for cancer!". Yes. And that baby may also have grown up to be a criminal who mugs and murders me some day.

I'm guessing "The Bell Curve" is one of your favorite books.

Considering my experience with the demographics of ulta-low birthweight babies the latter scenario is more likely than the former.

I presume your "experience" is that a child will turn out just like the parents? Do also you believe that Buck v. Bell was one of the Supreme Court's greatest rulings?

[The Good Doctor]

"I'm guessing "The Bell Curve" is one of your favorite books."

You found something inaccurate about "The Bell Curve"? Or do you just not like evidence that contradicts your view? (Statistically there are a lot more muggers than there are people who have cured cancer, so of course my assertion is correct, but I'm guessing you don't like statistics either.)

[ladyjane]

I'm guessing "The Bell Curve" is one of your favorite books.

I suspect you haven't read The Bell Curve. It is actually a very interesting and important book. It was criticized by ignorant folks who not only didn't understand its message but had never read it.