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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 06:08 PM
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Where are the 'Pro-Lifers'? Malnutrition is a bigger killer than abortion.
All these "Abortion is murder" people should pay attention, if their 45 million babies aborted in the last 32 years claim is true, then that would make malnutrition a bigger killer by 3 times.

"Undernutrition is to blame for 3.5 million deaths among children aged under five each year, but most of the fatalities occur in 20 countries, where targeted aid programmes could swiftly address the problem, researchers say.

Most of the deaths are inflicted indirectly by stunting and poor resistance to disease, and two of the biggest culprits are lack of vitamin A and zinc during the mother's pregnancy and the child's first two years of life, they say.

Mortality from undernutrition accounts for more than a third of child deaths worldwide, they add.

The five studies are published online Thursday by the British health journal The Lancet."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080117/hl_afp/healthchildrennutrition_080117211620
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 06:12 PM
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1. They only care about the fetus.
Once you're born, you're on your own.
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 06:12 PM
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2. You misunderstand their doctrine. They believe all human life is sacred...
between conception and birth. After that, the little shits are on their own.
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DesertFlower Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 06:13 PM
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3. but, but, but huckabee says
they would be doing the work that our illegal immigrants are doing.:crazy:
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 06:28 PM
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4. "Pro Life" is just a nice slogan that someone came up with.
It rings better than Anti-Abortion. It means nothing.
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niceypoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 06:56 PM
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5. You cant rally Rapture cultists on nutrition
Or gun nuts...
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ismnotwasm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 06:58 PM
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6. They don't care
Edited on Thu Jan-17-08 06:59 PM by ismnotwasm
They want to put up billboards instead.

edit, K&R
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 06:59 PM
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7. k&r for numbers
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Quantess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 08:56 PM
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8. First, it's "Anti-Choice".
Anti-Choice is more accurate.

Malnutrition is God's will. Abortion is murder, and worse--- abortion is an attempt to escape the consequences of premarital sex.
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Elspeth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 09:03 PM
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9. They can't turn malnutrition into a weapon against women
That's it.
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 09:06 PM
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10. Malnutrition has nothing to do with punishing naughty women for enjoying sex.
Therefore it's a no-sale for the pro-preggers.
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tandot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 09:30 PM
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11. to them "pro-life" is just a buzzword to get elected
in reality, they give a shit about other people.
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kineneb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 10:35 PM
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12. ah, but "those" people are not white "Christians"
one of the goals for the pro-birth crowd is to populate the planet with "their" kind of people. Ya' never hear about them protesting clinics in Latino/Black/other ethnic areas. They are the same people who complain about non-whites "taking over"; only it is never worded in that manner.

Peel back the layers of lies, and underneath one will find a bunch of cowardly neo-Nazi racialists.

Sorry for the rant, but I have been reading up on the background of the US fundamentalist/dominionist movement, and there are just too many connections to the ideological remnants of the Nazi era.
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