Have you ever read something that has made you wanna just tear your hair out and hurl explitaves at your computer screen?
I just did.
In Turnabout, Infant Deaths Climb in South
For decades, Mississippi and neighboring states with large black populations and expanses of enduring poverty made steady progress in reducing infant death. But, in what health experts call an ominous portent, progress has stalled and in recent years the death rate has risen in Mississippi and several other states....
There are many reasons behind this ominous trend, but one in particular jumed out at me:
In 2004, Gov. Haley Barbour came to office promising not to raise taxes and to cut Medicaid. Face-to-face meetings were required for annual re-enrollment in Medicaid and CHIP, the children’s health insurance program; locations and hours for enrollment changed, and documentation requirements became more stringent.
As a result, the number of non-elderly people, mainly children, covered by the Medicaid and CHIP programs declined by 54,000 in the 2005 and 2006 fiscal years.
More on the flip.
These fucking conservatives and their "culture of life" bulshit.
You claim to protect the rights of the unborn as a pretext to oppose stem-cell research.
You claim to protect the rights of the unborn as a pretext to stick the government into womens' bodies and deny them the right to an abortion even when the pregnancy puts their lives at risk.
But when it comes to supplying the God-given right to healthcare for pregnant women, tax cuts for millionaires come first.
Oleta Fitzgerald, southern regional director for the Children’s Defense Fund, said: “When you see drops in the welfare rolls, when you see drops in Medicaid and children’s insurance, you see a recipe for disaster. Somebody’s not eating, somebody’s not going to the doctor and unborn children suffer.”
Oh yeah, but I forgot- conservatives don't give a shit if it happens to black babies.
Most striking, here and throughout the country, is the large racial disparity. In Mississippi, infant deaths among blacks rose to 17 per thousand births in 2005 from 14.2 per thousand in 2004, while those among whites rose to 6.6 per thousand from 6.1. (The national average in 2003 was 5.7 for whites and 14.0 for blacks.)
You conservatives can take your "culture of life" and shove it up your goddamned asses.
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