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I would think that doesn't belong in a gathering of childhood fatality statistics, pretty much by definition.

I might be a pro lifer, but I have to support this distinction.

Now the dark hilarity of describing the fatality rate of abortions as 0.6 per 100k abortions, on the other hand...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22270271

Look closer... How else would you explain the decrease in congenital birth defects? Eugenism?

If 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-worldwid...

coupled with some estimates on population indicates the total number of abortions has gone down by about 10%.

If 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.

"Folic acid"

Zero sum, huh?

It’s hard to get pregnant at 3.