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Re:What are children dying from and what can we do about it? by qbonnard on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @06:56PM (#20815273)
Look closer... How else would you explain the decrease in congenital birth defects? Eugenism?
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Re:What are children dying from and what can we do about it? by Jare on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @07:12PM (#20815338)
If you are suggesting that decrease is proportional to an increase in abortions, I believe you would be very wrong

https://www.guttmacher.org/infographic/2018/changes-worldwid...

coupled with some estimates on population indicates the total number of abortions has gone down by about 10%.

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Re:What are children dying from and what can we do about it? by yters on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @10:49PM (#20816435)
If birth defects are passed on from parent genes, I don't think abortion can explain a constant rate of decrease. It can explain it in the 'kill all the defective' sense (Iceland), but not 'cleaning the gene pool' sense.
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Re:What are children dying from and what can we do about it? by roguecoder on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @08:12PM (#20815659)
"Folic acid"
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Re:What are children dying from and what can we do about it? by trentnix on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @07:02PM (#20815295)
Zero sum, huh?
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