More US babies die day they are born than any industrialized country, report shows

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5. From the original article at MSNBC

The March of Dimes, a charity that focuses on healthy births, says infant mortality fell by 12 percent between 2005 and 2011, and premature births have fallen by 8.5 percent since 2006. "This rate reduction has meant 125,000 fewer premature births and an estimated cost savings of about $2 billion," the group said in a statement. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 24,586 U.S. babies died before they turned 1 in 2010, compared to 23,910 in 2011.

"This has been accomplished with a variety of known, effective health interventions, including: providing access to health care to all women of childbearing age; risk reduction, including not smoking during pregnancy; progesterone treatments for women who have had a previous preterm birth; better management of fertility treatments to reduce multiple gestations; hospital quality improvement initiatives to eliminate elective early inductions and cesarean deliveries before 39 completed weeks of pregnancy."

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In the current push for austerity, maintaining any sort of program - whether by prevention or intervention - is highly unlikely. Pro-life my ass!