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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (20918)	7/28/2012 11:01:21 AM
From: Brumar89	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

Everyone knows different countries count infant deaths differently. That lie won't fly.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (20918)	7/28/2012 11:19:47 AM
From: longnshort	5 Recommendations Respond to of 85487

you buy that crock lolol. what is considered a dead baby in cuba ? "Cuba does not register births under 1000g. In fact, this is precisely what the World Health Organization itself recommends. For official record keeping purposes, only live births of greater than 1,000g should be included. Nor does Cuba count a baby as "alive" if it dies within the first 24 hours of birth. The United States has the most intensive system of emergency intervention to keep low birth weight and premature infants alive, in the world. The United States is also one of only a handful countries which keeps detailed statistics on early fetal mortality — the survival rate of infants who are born as early as the 20th week of gestation. In the United States, if an infant is born weighing only 400 grams and not breathing, a doctor will likely spend lot of time and money trying to revive that infant. If the infant does not survive — and the mortality rate for such infants is in excess of 50 percent — that sequence of events will be recorded as a live birth and then a death. In many countries, however, (including Glorious Cuba) 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. So not only are you lying about the statistics, the statistics you're lying about are lies, themselves. Created by a socialist agenda which uses Hate for America as its century old rallying cry."

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (20918)	7/28/2012 11:23:05 AM
From: Little Joe	1 Recommendation Respond to of 85487

"The research also found that poorer mothers with less education were at a significantly higher risk of early delivery. The study added that in general lower educational attainment was associated with higher newborn mortality." Yes and who supposedly provides the education for our country. In case you don't know it is the Government which has failed for years to provide adequate educational opportunities to poor kids. The only reason children from middle and upper class children do better is because their parents are doing a good part of the job the schools should be doing. Maybe when we start to understand that our education system is a job program for adults and not designed to educate children and we radically change the system to a performance based system, these kids might have a chance. lj