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Look closer... How else would you explain the decrease in congenital birth defects? Eugenism?
by qbonnard 7y ago
Look closer... How else would you explain the decrease in congenital birth defects? Eugenism?
- trentnix 7y agoZero sum, huh?
- Jare 7y agoIf you are suggesting that decrease is proportional to an increase in abortions, I believe you would be very wrong https://www.guttmacher.org/infographic/2018/changes-worldwide-abortion-rates-1990-2014 https://www.guttmacher.org/infographic/2018/changes-worldwid... coupled with some estimates on population indicates the total number of abortions has gone down by about 10%.
- roguecoder 7y ago"Folic acid"
- yters 7y agoIf birth defects are passed on from parent genes, I don't think abortion can explain a constant rate of decrease. It can explain it in the 'kill all the defective' sense (Iceland), but not 'cleaning the gene pool' sense.