FYI

30 January 2006 by Bob

Stop Being a DorkReport: 8M With Birth Defects Each Year

WASHINGTON Jan 30, 2006 — About 8 million children worldwide are born every year with serious birth defects, many of them dying before age 5 in a toll largely hidden from view, the March of Dimes says.

Enough said.

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3 comments to “FYI”

  1. jimmer:

    Of those 8 million something like 5 million are preventable. All of those good God fearing people who think life is sacred doing nothing.

  2. Bob:

    Of course, now they are preventable. But turn the clock back, and you have the same problem. (Not that you didn’t already know that; but most people don’t think about that fact.)

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