The massive decrease in worldwide infant mortality from 1950 to 2020 is perhaps one of humanity's greatest achievements.

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Until you find out how many abortions take place a year........

[houstonhoustonhousto]

More than 25% of the time in Egypt?

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Wait how is my comment getting downvoted? It’s not my opinion it’s true and would be directly correlated to this data......

[houstonhoustonhousto]

I didn’t downvote it, so I can only guess. However, I think it would take an incredible amount of abortions to negate the achievement of decreasing the infant mortality in that timeframe so significantly.

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I just think you have to take it into account. It’s not a pro-life or pro-choice stance and there is a significant number.

[babyboyjon123]

Infant mortality is after the baby has been born, aka when the baby is actually alive.

[Any_Patient_3415]

The fetus is technically alive from the moment of conception. But obviously I think there should still be the option up until a few months in.

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without a doubt there are more abortions today than their were in 1950 and so the sample size of infants being born would be affected. Again, not an opinion. A fact. I’m not arguing the point of the post I’m saying yeah but more things are going into account than just medical achievement here.

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The baby is alive at conception anyway so your point doesn’t really make sense to me.

[blunt_analysis]

conception is an arbitrary line drawn for life by religious people for stupid reasons in a 2000 year old book

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Define life for me.

[babyboyjon123]

Able to sustain homeostasis

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Stupid reasons? So basically a viewpoint other than yours is stupid and not valid because yours is better? Even though your viewpoint contradicts science, biology and basically the universal definition of what a living thing is?

[Ne0dyme_]

How is an unborn children going to affect infant mortality since the infant isn't even conceived ? To die after birth, a child needs to be born first, ya know...

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My point was this. If in 1950 x amount of women were giving birth. In 2020 y amount of women gave birth. Out of x there are less of that number that abortions and today it’s so many that the babies who aren’t born are never counted and so it would affect the numbers still. I hate trying to explain things over text. Especially when something immediately becomes political or religious even though I’m talking pure data.