From: [Daniel T.]
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 7:39 AM
To: PTBC Joel J
Subject: Lancet outs Maternal Health coverupHi Joel:
Looks like British Scientists were under pressure to shut up about improvements in Maternal Health. [link expired and removed]
Makes it harder to sell abortion as a liberal sacrament.
Kind of like ClimateGate, just before the Big Convention.
…Keep up the great work, Joel.
Hey media: After you’re finished asking about the “Afghan” (not Taliban!) detainees for the 8,000th time, ask the abortion party and Michael Abortion Ignatieff about this, too, if only because it’s so amusing when he twists and bends to avoid saying “abortion” and instead calls it “a maternal health decision” or “a motherly choice” or something neat like that. And then always adds that he’s just about altruistically ensuring that already pregnant women “have a full range of contraceptive options and have control of their fertility,” and/or a “full range of family planning, sexual and reproductive health options.” It’s so subconscious-y!
Or are you satisfied with the “research” you’ve done, and carefully not done on the issue already, in order to help advocate for “maternal health”?
Lancet reports drop in maternal childbirth deaths, says it was pressured not to publish story [link expired and removed]
14/04/2010 12:42:00 PM
Maria Cheng, THE ASSOCIATED PRESSLONDON – The number of women dying in childbirth worldwide has dropped dramatically, a British medical journal reports, adding that it was pressured to delay its findings until after U.N. meetings this week on public health funding.
A separate report by a group headed by the United Nations reached a very different conclusion on maternal mortality, saying the figure remains steady at about 500,000 deaths a year.
The disagreement reveals the politics behind public health, where progress made in tackling a health problem can jeopardize funding. Public health officials are gearing up to ask for billions of dollars this week at U.N. meetings .
The British medical journal Lancet rushed out a paper on Sunday that found the number of women who die in pregnancy or childbirth has dropped by more than 35 per cent over 28 years.
Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet, said he was disappointed when maternal health advocates pressured him to delay publishing the report until September, after several critical fundraising meetings. He also wrote a commentary in Lancet on the pressure.
“Activists perceive a lower maternal mortality figure as actually diluting their message,” he told The Associated Press on Wednesday. “Advocacy can sometimes get in the way of science.”
No way! Nothing can get in the way of science! It’s settled! Or something!
I particularly enjoyed this bit of candor, and wish there were a way of conveying an advisory regarding the now scientifically-proven fallacy of trusting the liberals’ U.N. division or left-wing advocacy groups with anything else that is relevant today, or about anything whatsoever, anymore.
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