North Carolina, Immoral When It Comes to Children

This is a statistic that ticks me off, and it shows that when you think North Carolina, you really need to think "mediocre". You need to think, "aiming for third-world status".

North Carolina's infant death rate continues to exceed the national average. In 2005, 1,077 babies died before their first birthday - a rate of 8.8 infant deaths per 1,000 live births. Based on provisional data, North Carolina ranked 45th in the nation in infant mortality in 2005.

In this case, we aren't even mediocre, we are below mediocre, we are bottom of the barrel. But, let's look outside the US, let's see how we rate compared to other "modern" countries. These are the countries that have infant mortality rates BETTER than North Carolina. That is, the infant mortality rate for the WHOLE COUNTRY is better than for North Carolina, with UNC Hospitals, Duke Hospitals, Wake Med, Rex, etc. We have, what four medical schools? UNC, Duke, Wake, East Carolina? Anyway, here you go.

163 Chile 8.80
164 Guadeloupe 8.60
165 Hungary 8.57
166 Bermuda 8.53
167 French Polynesia 8.44
168 Cayman Islands 8.19
169 Virgin Islands 8.03
170 Estonia 7.87
171 Reunion 7.78
172 New Caledonia 7.72
173 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 7.54
174 Slovakia 7.41
175 Poland 7.36
176 Montserrat 7.35
177 Cyprus 7.18
178 Northern Mariana Islands 7.11
179 Martinique 7.09
180 Israel 7.03
181 Guam 6.94
182 Lithuania 6.89
183 Croatia 6.84
184 United States 6.50
185 Taiwan (Republic of China) 6.40
186 Cuba 6.33
187 Korea, South 6.28
188 Faroe Islands 6.24
189 Italy 5.94
190 Man, Isle of 5.93
191 Aruba 5.89
192 New Zealand 5.85
193 San Marino 5.73
194 Greece 5.53
195 Monaco 5.43
196 Ireland 5.39
197 Jersey 5.24
198 United Kingdom 5.16
199 Gibraltar 5.13
200 European Union 5.10
201 Portugal 5.05
202 Netherlands 5.04
203 Luxembourg 4.81
204 Canada 4.75
205 Guernsey 4.71
206 Liechtenstein 4.70
207 Australia 4.69
208 Belgium 4.68
209 Austria 4.66
210 Denmark 4.56
211 Slovenia 4.45
212 Spain 4.42
213 Switzerland 4.39
214 Macau 4.37
215 France 4.26
216 Germany 4.16
217 Andorra 4.05
218 Czech Republic 3.93
219 Malta 3.89
220 Norway 3.70
221 Finland 3.57
222 Iceland 3.31
223 Japan 3.26
224 Hong Kong 2.96
225 Sweden 2.77
226 Singapore 2.29

I highlighted those that stand out in my mind, not because they actually ARE third-world countries, but because in America we look down on these nations as below us. Not as good as us. Yet, here they are, MUCH better at keeping their babies alive than we are.

Where are the pro-life activists?

Where is your indignation?

Or, are you merely pro-birth, do you care not for what happens to those babies once they are born?

Shame on you.