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To: unclewest who wrote (48706)	6/4/2004 3:34:43 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793921

How important is to you to keep your brains inside your skull? Oh, it's pretty important to me as I'm sure it is to you. However, there's a big difference between the way we as individuals prioritize and the way public health prioritizes. Public health is most concerned about big volume problems. I don't mean to trivialize this. Deaths are deaths. But some sense of proportion is needed, I think. When you compare this to the leading causes of death, whether the number is 500 or several times that, the numbers are small. Sixty thousand people die each year from the flu. We lose many, many more kids each year to car accidents. Even to drowning in bathtubs. From a public health perspective, there's no comparison. Most of them are paid for by medicaid. I wouldn't have brought it up but, since you did, which do you think costs Medicaid more, an abortion procedure or caring for a hopelessly disabled kid for the rest of his life? You should leave money out of it. You can't win this argument on dollars.