Cuban Infant Mortality: Count The Ones That Lived… After They Lived Long Enough To Count.

I am not going to lie to you gentle reader. I think this man isn’t just a joke. I think he’s a jerk.

I don’t know - funny beard aside - if there is much to like about him. I understand he doesn’t even smoke cigars anymore. His one redeeming quality, straight down the toilet.

But for years, we here in America have heard rumor of the superior infant mortality rate of the Cuban island. Supposedly better than the US, many have lauded this oppressor’s regime as being wildly successful in providing healthcare to the people.

I was always skeptical. That’s just my nature.

Than I came accross this little gem over at Dappled Things the blog of 30something priest Fr. Jim Tucker of the Diocese of Arlington, VA. I have mentioned that diocese before.

Father writes:
Sicko — ABC News has aninteresting piece up on some of the problems with the “undisputed” “facts” in Michael Moore’s latest paean to socialism, Sicko. It’s already been fairly widely reported that the “representative” Cuban hospital featured in Sicko is not the sort of hospital that common people are sent to. I had not read, though, about the source of Moore’s statistics on the excellent state of Cuban healthcare: the Cuban government. One Cuban doctor, for instance, comments on the problem with Cuba’s numbers regarding infant mortality:

… Although Cuba claims to have low infant mortality rates, doctors have said the data is misleading because when there might be indications of problems with the fetus, there is a widespread practice of forced abortions.

Julio Alfonso said, “I personally used to do 70 to 80 abortions a day.” Yanet Sanchez, a Cuban exile, said she was simply told to submit to an abortion. “They told me I should end the pregnancy,” said Sanchez. “It was my very first pregnancy. I wanted to have the child.”

Other doctors have said that if a child dies a few hours after birth, they don’t count it as ever having lived, which ultimately makes infant mortality in Cuba look better than that of the United States.

“It changes the number, even though the same number of children may be dying or more,” said Carro. …

One more reason why I have about as much use for that political system and that dictator (and people who like him) as I do for used chewing gum.

Jesus protect and save the unborn!

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