From: bsw8-AT-pseud.pseud Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:29:41 -0600 Subject: Re: M-INTRO: Re: Mortality and Morality Bsw8 “a large number of abortions would have a lower infant mortality rate due to the fact that high risk children were aborted prematurely, thus eliminating the risk (high in this case) that that child would die soon after birth.” Desoto, I assume you have evidence to back up this claim. Yes high risk fetuses are sometimes aborted, however so are healthy fetuses. The Netherlands has the lowest rate of abortion in the world yet a lower rate of infant mortality than the US. In fact, industrialized nations with lower abortion rates than the US also tend to have lower infant mortality rates. http://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/ib_0599.html (this shows rankings of abortions rate by nations) This sort of shoots down your idea that higher abortion rates decrease infant mortality rates. But feel free to provide evidence to the contrary if you want to. Are far as abortion being moral or not, I never argued either way on this. That was never my intent and I am uninterested in doing so. --- from list marxism-intro-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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