Here is another record you can tack onto your biography, and it’s just the latest indicator of your ineptness and failure to protect the American people.

How can this be? This high death rate of infants seems to be in direct opposition to your pro-life agenda. But, as we know you are not really pro-life; you are pro-birth. If you were pro-life, you would have asked about the sentencing of the death-row inmates you killed in Texas. And you wouldn't have invaded Iraq on made-to-fit arguments for doing so. You just fight to assure pregnant girls have the child and leave the rest to someone else to worry about.

Your allegedly pro-life platform served you well with conservatives and Bible-thumpers. You have done everything you could to discourage contraception and abortions. Many states emboldened by your stand, have placed many hurdles in front of any woman who wants an abortion.

You and other republican jesus freaks are responsible for so many women, especially women without money and opportunity, to be systematically pressured into having babies after they become pregnant.

Consider that figure of 4.7 dead newborns per thousand. Women with money, health care access to prenatal care and medication has significantly improved odds of having healthy babies. So there has to be a huge number of poor women having babies out there to offset the lower numbers of women with health care having children.

You don't provide basic primary health care services, and you prohibit their access to abortions as well. This year you also slashed the budget for child health care programs as well. You only asked for $323 million on maternal and child health programs, less than the $356 million that Congress appropriated last year.

About half, a million U.S. babies are born prematurely each year. African-American babies are twice as likely as white infants, to be premature, to have a low birth weight, and to die at birth.

Doctors are fighting back. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists announced a new campaign to increase access to the morning-after pill after you refused to allow it to be sold over the counter. The morning-after pill cuts the chances of pregnancy up to 89 percent if used within 72 hours of sexual intercourse.

A new campaign was announced Monday by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to increase access to the morning-after pill after you refused to allow it to be sold over the counter. The morning-after pill is a high dose of regular birth control pills. It cuts the chances of pregnancy up to 89 percent.

After today's baby is born into a poor family, it has such a deadly gauntlet to run.

Once an unwanted child is born, the child becomes everyone's problem.

Steven Levitt is one of the foremost economist in the country. He recently received the John Bates Clark medal.

He studies many unusual issues from an economic view using sophisticated statistics to uncover cause and effect relationships.

One of the issues he studied was the ever-climbing crime rates across the country during the 80's. Politicians and police implemented several endeavors which included more prisons, more executions, more policemen, more aggressive judgments, and more enforcement of minor infractions.

Suddenly in the 90's the crime rate dropped dramatically, and everyone from President Clinton to Rudy Giuliani and every police chief jumped on the bandwagon to take credit for it.

Levitt looked at all the data from the era and came to do some very interesting conclusions. Although the reduction of crime was partly resulting from more prisons and more police presence the main reason for the sharp reduction of crime was the availability of abortions to women.

The women who felt they couldn't care for a child didn't have them. And studies showed unwanted children are at high risk to become criminals. So having abortions available to women reduced the crime rate because children were not born to women in impoverished environments, who didn't want them.

You are not the only one living in a bubble. Many republicans and Democrats live in their own sheltered world as well. Republicans are especially prone to believing that if the country's business interests are satisfied everything else will sort itself out somehow.

Lets admit it, pure capitalism at its best, does not address the needs of our country, but neither does pure socialism. The right answer seems to be somewhere between; a thriving business environment with a conscious for the people they hire, their neighbors and the people they serve.

Call me an idealist but we should invest in companies that invest in America that support our ideals. The government should protect and serve all people not just those able to pay into the coffers of politicians.

Your huge industrial military complex is more than the root of all evil; it is the cause of our ruined democracy.
Your blind adherence to business at the cost of socially responsible government is akin to a criminal act, endangering the future safety of all Americans, because although you have emboldened the terrorists to attack our country the real danger is from within.

When Republicans like you come into office it seems the best investment strategy is in prisons, police tasers and baby coffins.



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To: guzmatom@mac.com

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