Reply #120: The infant mortality one

[ismnotwasm]

I've known about for sometime and is the the one I supremely disgusting, given those bullshit 'pro-life' cretins. But even in this excellent short article you posted, our maternal death rate is not mentioned in these statistics and absolutely should be.

"With a lifetime risk of maternal deaths that is greater than in 40 other countries, including virtually all industrialized nations, the USA has failed to reverse the two-decade upward trend in preventable maternal deaths, despite pledges to do so"
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/usa-urged-confront-shocking-maternal-mortality-rate-2010-03-12




The income disparity can be further broken down by gender and race. There are other statistics that indicate a ailing culture that accepts and perhaps encourages or embraces poverty, prison statistics, for instance.