PA5COR
05-08-2013, 10:24 AM
Sad...
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/07/1973341/us-infant-mortality-rate/
New field for th republicans to do something here ...
Each year, about one million infants around the world die on the same day they’re born. That figure includes about 11,300 U.S. babies — the highest first-day infant mortality rate (http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/30/17988462-more-us-babies-die-day-they-are-born-than-any-industrialized-country-report-shows) of any other country in the industrialized world, according to a new report (http://www.savethechildrenweb.org/SOWM-2013/files/assets/common/downloads/State%20of%20the%20WorldOWM-2013.pdf) from Save the Children. In fact, the United States’ rate of first-day infant death is 50 percent more than all the other industrialized countries in the report combined.
Considering the United States’ dismal record on infant mortality, it seems to follow that advancing programs to support youth (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/02/28/1648731/teen-pregnancy-support/) who may become pregnant, as well as expanding women’s access to preventative health services like contraception and prenatal and maternal care, would be a top priority for both women’s health groups and pro-life groups. But that hasn’t exactly been the case in the United States. Intent on attacking family planning services as well as abortion, anti-choice activists have successfully waged a war (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/11/1854321/abortion-restrictions-2013/) against some of the same health resources that could help the U.S. prevent infant deaths at rates closer to other industrialized nations.
Many far-right abortion opponents have fought hard against Obamacare, which helps expand women’s access (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/05/24/488844/top-10-obamacare-benefits-at-stake-for-women/) to gender-specific health care services like birth control and prenatal check-ups, because they claim that insurance coverage for contraception is a violation of religious liberty (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/22/1900591/michigan-deny-birth-control/). And Republican lawmakers have continued to target Planned Parenthood (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/03/15/1725771/by-the-numbers-texas-planned-parenthood/), advancing measures to defund the national women’s health organization even at the expense of the low-income women who rely on those clinics for their primary care (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/03/1817721/family-planning-clinics/). At the education level, anti-abortion activists often fight (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/16/1875991/ohio-gateway-sexual-activity/) against (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/10/1844321/arkansas-planned-parenthood-sex-ed/) comprehensive sexual health resources (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/03/29/1793261/fox-news-sex-ed/) in public schools — particularly when those services are provided by Planned Parenthood — even though those programs have been proven to do a better job at preventing unplanned pregnancies (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/03/01/1640851/states-teen-pregnancy-rates/) than abstinence-only curricula.
Instead of focusing efforts on policy solutions to help lower the nation’s infant mortality rate, the right-wing has most recently been fixated (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/15/1862301/viewpoint-how-the-conservative-media-freakout-over-gosnell-reinforces-the-rights-worst-biases/) on the high-profile trial of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, accused of killing live babies in his illegal Philadelphia-area clinic (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/04/17/1875681/poverty-drove-women-into-kermit-gosnells-clinic/). Declaring Gosnell’s crimes as proof that all late-term abortion services (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/29/1934941/right-wing-twisting-facts-gosnell/) represent “infanticide,” abortion opponents have raised alarm over what they perceive as a widespread human rights issue (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/06/abortion-rights-community-has-become-the-nra-of-the-left.html).
Rightwingers, babykillers...
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/07/1973341/us-infant-mortality-rate/
New field for th republicans to do something here ...
Each year, about one million infants around the world die on the same day they’re born. That figure includes about 11,300 U.S. babies — the highest first-day infant mortality rate (http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/30/17988462-more-us-babies-die-day-they-are-born-than-any-industrialized-country-report-shows) of any other country in the industrialized world, according to a new report (http://www.savethechildrenweb.org/SOWM-2013/files/assets/common/downloads/State%20of%20the%20WorldOWM-2013.pdf) from Save the Children. In fact, the United States’ rate of first-day infant death is 50 percent more than all the other industrialized countries in the report combined.
Considering the United States’ dismal record on infant mortality, it seems to follow that advancing programs to support youth (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/02/28/1648731/teen-pregnancy-support/) who may become pregnant, as well as expanding women’s access to preventative health services like contraception and prenatal and maternal care, would be a top priority for both women’s health groups and pro-life groups. But that hasn’t exactly been the case in the United States. Intent on attacking family planning services as well as abortion, anti-choice activists have successfully waged a war (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/11/1854321/abortion-restrictions-2013/) against some of the same health resources that could help the U.S. prevent infant deaths at rates closer to other industrialized nations.
Many far-right abortion opponents have fought hard against Obamacare, which helps expand women’s access (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/05/24/488844/top-10-obamacare-benefits-at-stake-for-women/) to gender-specific health care services like birth control and prenatal check-ups, because they claim that insurance coverage for contraception is a violation of religious liberty (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/22/1900591/michigan-deny-birth-control/). And Republican lawmakers have continued to target Planned Parenthood (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/03/15/1725771/by-the-numbers-texas-planned-parenthood/), advancing measures to defund the national women’s health organization even at the expense of the low-income women who rely on those clinics for their primary care (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/03/1817721/family-planning-clinics/). At the education level, anti-abortion activists often fight (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/16/1875991/ohio-gateway-sexual-activity/) against (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/10/1844321/arkansas-planned-parenthood-sex-ed/) comprehensive sexual health resources (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/03/29/1793261/fox-news-sex-ed/) in public schools — particularly when those services are provided by Planned Parenthood — even though those programs have been proven to do a better job at preventing unplanned pregnancies (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/03/01/1640851/states-teen-pregnancy-rates/) than abstinence-only curricula.
Instead of focusing efforts on policy solutions to help lower the nation’s infant mortality rate, the right-wing has most recently been fixated (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/15/1862301/viewpoint-how-the-conservative-media-freakout-over-gosnell-reinforces-the-rights-worst-biases/) on the high-profile trial of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, accused of killing live babies in his illegal Philadelphia-area clinic (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/04/17/1875681/poverty-drove-women-into-kermit-gosnells-clinic/). Declaring Gosnell’s crimes as proof that all late-term abortion services (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/29/1934941/right-wing-twisting-facts-gosnell/) represent “infanticide,” abortion opponents have raised alarm over what they perceive as a widespread human rights issue (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/06/abortion-rights-community-has-become-the-nra-of-the-left.html).
Rightwingers, babykillers...