This is really sad. It's not enough that our kids are uneducated and falling behind the rest of the world. But the fetus protecting right doesn't really give a shit that once you are born, you are taken care of.
We have the 41st worst infant mortality rate, even behind Cuba!!!!
Kids can't wait for trickle down voodoo economics. They need healthcare and education and safe neighborhoods today.
America's Shamefulinfant mortality rate
Here's a wrenching fact: If the U.S. had an infant mortality rate as good as Cuba's, we would save an additional 2,212 American babies a year.
Yes, Cuba's. Babies are less likely to survive in America, with a health care system that we think is the best in the world, than in impoverished and autocratic Cuba. According to the latest C.I.A. World Factbook, Cuba is one of 41 countries that have better infant mortality rates than the U.S.
Even more troubling, the rate in the U.S. has worsened recently.