File spoon-archives/marxism-intro.archive/marxism-intro_2004/marxism-intro.0409, message 72


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.




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