Perinatal mortality, not infant mortality. Infant mortality doesn’t cover deaths during birth or stillbirths.

You’re full of crap.

You’re not looking at the right stats. First off, infant mortality (deaths from birth to one year of age. It includes accidents, sudden infant death syndrome, and childhood diseases) is different than PERINATAL mortality (death from 28 weeks of pregnancy to 28 days of life, includes late stillbirths and deaths during…

Misinformation = facts that don’t suit your fanatsyland.

So you cite an anecdote against actual statistics. Watch who you’re calling ignorant.

“the requirements are extremely rigorous to be accepted as a home birth candidate for a reason.”

Watch the bullshit. Doulas are not medical professionals like a CNM. Homebirths have a death rate almost three times higher than hospital births.

“home birth, with licensed medical professionals and rescue materials and good antenatal care is proven to be safer than hospital birth.”

Homebirths don’t have that good a record though.

Pretty sure that’s not a law everywhere. Heck, a shocking number of states don’t even regulate midwife training. You can take an online course and call yourself a midwife.

What’s amazing about it? I see junk science.

In a world heading towards overpopulation and a foster care system bursting at the seams, this is just what we need!

I usually hate the term “humorless shrews” but honestly that’s what you’re dealing with. No wonder Jezebel gets a bad name sometimes...

You strike me as one too, actually.

So this will make conservative lawmakers declare war on Zika and send aid to countries affected by it, right? Right?

I’m cool with this. I’ve always wanted to go draft card burning.

Beloved TV show meant for kids, eh? Just like that episode where a guy in the freaky mime mask raped a girl?

Was “The Book Thief” a major letdown, or is that just me?

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - I hope that one day someone loves me as much as Michael Shiavo must have loved Terri. Enough to stand up to deluded family members who seemed determined to stop at nothing, media harassment/outright demonization, threats from religious fanatics, etc, for what was right.

Well Babar is a colonial apologist to begin with, so...