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To: Britt0n
FTA: ...over 40 percent of the births in Hawaii that year (1961) took place at home.

I did no know that before. As for the rest of the article, I agree with all she has stated. There are many questions, and none have been answered.

9 posted on 02/11/2010 9:15:12 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

“over 40 percent of the births in Hawaii that year (1961) took place at home.

I did no know that before. “

That’s because it’s flagrantly false. In 1961, 99.3% of nonwhite births in Hawaii were born in hospitals, with physicians attending. [p. I-31 in http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsus/vsus_1961_1.pdf]. There were 12,198 non-white births in Hawaii that year [p. 2-14, same source], so this would mean a grand total of 85 such non-hospital births.

This obviously doesn’t mean that Obama could not have been one of them, but the credibility of those claiming Obama is not a citizen is seriously undercut every time they toss out an absurd statistic whose falsity can be so easily verified. I’ve seen elsewhere that only 14 non-hospital births were recorded in Honolulu that year: I can’t vouch for the exact accuracy of this figure, but it is certainly consistent with the 85 statewide total figure, as I’m guessing the lion’s share of non-hospital births would have occurred in more remote areas where getting to the hospital was more difficult.


15 posted on 02/11/2010 10:19:25 AM PST by DrC
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