Is There Life After Birth?

Tragically, there is not for far too many babies born in the developed country with close to the worst infant mortality rate, compounded by an anti-life health care system and anti-life policies that allow poverty in the midst of embarrassing riches. All this in the national home of the Right to Life movement: the United States of America.

Quoted in a CBS/AP report: While the gaps for infants and mothers contrast sharply with the nation's image as a world leader, health policy expert Kenneth Thorpe said the numbers are not surprising. "Our health care system focuses on providing high-tech services for complicated cases. We do this very well," Thorpe said. "What we do not do is provide basic primary and preventive health care services. We do not pay for these services, and do not have a delivery system that is designed to provide either primary prevention, or adequately treat patients with chronic diseases."

Nor do we apparently place much emphasis on the immorality of not providing for the health and well-being, let alone the education and development of the born.