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To: i-node who wrote (214862)	1/13/2005 4:12:28 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571714

From your article: "In many countries, however, (including many European countries) such severe medical intervention would not be attempted and, moreover, regardless of whether or not it was, this would be recorded as a fetal death rather than a live birth. That unfortunate infant would never show up in infant mortality statistics." First, which Europeans countries would not attempt "severe medical intervention" to save a baby? Is it the article's determination that Europeans are less caring about human life than Americans? One of my Euro friends was a preemie.......everything was done to save his life. Its just more American propaganda. Secondly, Cuba was not the only nation that was ahead of us in terms of infant mortality.......many were nations with longer life spans than ours.....Japan, Sweden etc.........and better health care. I'm sure you won't be admitting you're wrong (you never have). But this certainly explains the difference. It may explain the difference between Cuba and the US but I doubt very much that it explains the difference between the US and say Japan or Sweden...........countries that are the US's peers. However, my complaint is not that the US is flagging when it comes to infant mortality but the arrogant assumption on the part of Americans like yourselves that we are the best at everything when we are not.

To: i-node who wrote (214862)	1/13/2005 5:02:37 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571714

David, thanks for the link. Sounds like an rehashed issue that was addressed several years ago. By the way, here will be the quote that Michael Moore takes out-of-context: In any given year in the United States anywhere from 30-40 percent of infants die before they are even a day old. Tenchusatsu