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Thursday, September 22, 2005

8 - How Right-Wingers Kill 18,900 American Infants Every Year / Contest: Barbara Bush vs. Bill O'Reilly / How Cold Is A Right-Winger's Heart? / More

Right-wingers are directly to blame for 18,900 American infants needlessly dying every year from lack of proper medical care. Says who? The CIA.

Barbara Bush's statement about people in the Houston Astrodome was pretty ugly, but O'Reilly recently said something that gives the old bat a run for her money. Hear them both, and vote!

If you say a right-winger's heart is as cold as ice, is that cold enough? I don't think so. Find out exactly how cold a right-winger's heart truly is.

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Jack Clark 2:02 PM [+]
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You state that the U.S. infant mortality rate has been increasing over the past decades, signifying an increased number of infant deaths. According to UNICEF statistics, which I trust due to the nature of their organization, the U.S. mortality rate in 1990 was 9; in 1995 it was 8; in 2000 and 2003 it was 7. Now you say it is 6.75. Does that sound like an increase? I don't think so. Please see this link to confirm my information.

http://millenniumindicators.un.org/unsd/mi/mi_series_results.asp?rowId=562
posted by Blogger Cruse  1:00 AM   [+]
 
Hi cruse, I don't believe I said the U.S. infant mortality rate has been increasing for decades. Towards the end of the segment, I said that for the first time in nearly 50 years , the US infant mortality rate increased last year under George W. Bush. Even though you're responding to something I didn't say, I understand it's a podcast and you didn't have what I said in writing to refer to when you posted your comment. I appreciate your looking up real facts to present. Keep trying to keep me honest!
posted by Blogger Jack Clark  1:30 PM   [+]
 
This is akin to an old moral dilemma.

Is it wrong to push someone off a bridge? Obviously.

What about this: You are walking across a bridge and someone is hanging, saying: "please save me" and you walk on by. Is that wrong?

Of course it is wrong. However, in the second instance there is the potential to dodge culpability.

So, although your right-wingers do not drop 18,900 babies off a bridge, the policies they push are instrumental in the deaths of these babies. To me that is absolutely wrong, but there are unfortunately ideologies (like libertarianism/ objectivism) that would disagree. Rather tragic, isn't it?
Red Jenny
posted by Blogger Red Jenny  7:45 AM   [+]
 
I was talking about this with my sister and she suggested that many of the 18,900 babies were babies that we would try to save in the US, that they would not necessarily try to save elsewhere.

Is there any validity to this arguement? I tried to look that kind of information up myself but could find an answer.
posted by Anonymous Anonymous  1:17 PM   [+]
 
I know one way to reduce infant mortality - Stop Abortion! It kills more babies than any single other cause.
posted by Anonymous Anonymous  12:36 PM   [+]
 
George W. Bush is a baby killer.
posted by Anonymous Anonymous  12:37 PM   [+]
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