What's "culturally appropriate" health care? Voodoo priestesses and medicine men?
They were trying to say nicely that it's hard to persuade Quonesha who spends her pregnancy drinking and smoking crack, and Imelda who spends her last month hiking across the desert so she can deliver an anchor baby here, that their choices may be leading to the deaths of their babies. You can't get good prenatal care that will save babies to mothers who are either drugged up or aren't even in the US at the time of conception, and in either case aren't eating properly or taking prenatal vitamins and getting ultrasounds.
We have got the best health care in the world here. If that were not the case, then rich Saudis and Englishmen wouldn't be coming here for medical care when they get cancer. Even poor people in this country have access to good FREE health care (if they choose to live near civilization). But you can't hold a gun to someone's head and force him to get good health care.
Very well said.
I thank God that I live in the US. My son was 2 months early and might have died if it were not for the state of the art NICU unit.
While your point is taken, the chart above has an interesting statistic --- "Mexicans" have a lower infant mortality than non-Hispanic whites.
Ergo, the "anchor-baby" issue dragging the statistics down is not the issue. (Not that there are not real problems with anchor babies, just not infant mortality.)
The big thing is this ENTIRE study is bogus. In the US more C-Section are performed to try to save early-term babies that would simply die (generally taking mom with him or her.).
Sorry, I guess I forgot my sarcasm tag.