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“The welfare and the future of our societies depend on our capacity to remain mobilized so as to improve the health of every mother and child”*…
Preparing for a world post Roe v Wade…
The red states poised to ban or severely limit abortion already tend to have limited access to health care, poor health outcomes and fewer safety net programs in place for mothers and children.
If the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, as it’s expected to, the ensuing increase in births will likely leave families in tough circumstances and strain systems that are already hanging by a thread.
“What we’re facing as a country is hundreds of thousands of births, probably disproportionately located in the states that have been most limited in what they do for pregnant women, infants and children. So this is the great paradox that we are dealing with,” said Sara Rosenbaum, a health law and policy professor at George Washington University. “We have not ever designed these programs for a world without Roe,” she added. “You need a child welfare system, the likes of which we’ve never seen.”…
A growing shortage of obstetricians, higher maternal mortality rates and worse health care outcomes generally, increased pressure on U.S. foster and adoption systems— it all bodes ill…
We know from focus on health outcomes that kids born into poverty, kids born into unstable social circumstances, tend to have higher incidence of early onset chronic diseases,” Shannon said. “We also know that when those children are raised in unstable circumstances and have to be cared for in foster care, the outcomes there are really sobering.
Richard Shannon, chief quality officer for Duke Health
“Red states aren’t prepared for a post-Roe baby boom,” from Caitlin Owens (@caitlinnowens) in @axios.
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As we contemplate care, we might sending healing birthday greetings to Thomas Huckle Weller; he was born on this date in 1915. A virologist, he developed a technique for cultivating poliomyelitis viruses in a test tube, using a combination of human embryonic skin and muscle tissue– which enabled the study of the virus “in the test tube,” a procedure that led to the development of polio vaccines. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954.
Just when you were beginning to feel a little safer…
The Army News Service reports that, even as Microsoft itself is quietly declaring defeat on widely-reviled Vista and trying to shift attention to the can’t-be-soon-enough release of Windows 7, the U.S. Army is moving all of it’s PCs to Vista…
Army migrating computers to Vista
May 20, 2009
By Gary Sheftick and Delawese FultonWASHINGTON (Army News Service, May 20, 2009) — The Army is migrating
all of its Windows-based computers to Microsoft’s Vista operating
system to bolster Internet security and standardize its information
systems.The systems change, which includes swapping Office 2003 for Office
2007, is set to be completed by Dec. 31.
The official release suggests that
First-time Vista users will discover added support for data
encryption, a new Windows Explorer, upgraded icons and navigation
structure…
… or not.
In any case, read the full piece here.
As we console ourselves that Trojan Horses have had a place in warfare since the time of Homer, we might recall that it was on this date in 1844 that Samuel F. B. Morse taped out the first message sent over the (first) “telegraph” line: “What hath God wrought?” Morse sent the famous message from the B&O’s Mount Clare Station in Baltimore to the Capitol Building. (The words were chosen by Annie Ellsworth, the daughter of the U.S. Patent Commissioner, from Numbers 23:23.)
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