“3. Girls who are eating poor diets, because there’s no responsible adult in the household.
It might help. You’d be surprised how many don’t know the importance of diet.
4. Girls who are drinking or smoking while pregnant?
It might help. You’d be surprised how many are unaware of the risks.
And nevertheless proper prenatal care will still lessen the infant mortality rate.
You argue as if these 4 examples are the sole reason for our high infant mortality rate.
And you know damn well that is false.”
Except that I am not saying that these are the “sole reason.” You are the one stuck in the “it’s either this or it’s that.” The real world is more complicated than that.
There is already an enormous amount of advertising aimed at reminding women that alcohol and tobacco are bad for unborn children. (Excuse me: fetal tissue that we haven’t aborted yet, therefore not important to liberals.) Just like the advertising that is aimed at adults–who all know that smoking is lethal, and still do it.
