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[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 hours ago

Why do doctors have to listen to parents? If a parent abuses a child the child gets taken away but if he abuses a baby somehow it's ok?

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

party of pro-life?

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago
[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

The babies who are dying are almost exclusively from MAGA/MAHA families, so I don't really see the problem. They are simply fulfilling their Darwinian Imperative, through their particular application of their Constitutional Free-Dumbs.

God Bless MAGAmerica.

[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 hour ago

....and nothing of value was lost

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 15 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.

This is how bad the wider world of journalism has got, that having a human write a synopsis is now seen as bragging rights.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 8 hours ago

yea because it was mostly clickbait(which buzzfeed pioneered) and now AI generated.

[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 17 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I used to feel this was a tragedy. Now I feel that those parents aren't intelligent enough to have children. They deserve what they got. The child died but it was probably going to of something else stupid at some point anyway. A century ago, before we had all the modern medical procedures, a large percentage of children didn't make it to adulthood. That is going to be the new norm for the parents who know better than "the elites".

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

On the other hand, some supposedly intelligent people are so doubtful of the world that they become hesitant at bringing a child in.

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

"I'm gonna fuck all y'all!"

[–] praxispotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Be careful. “Stupid people shouldn’t procreate” sounds like a good idea until the state deems you too stupid to deserve life. That’s eugenics. And it never stops with the people you think deserve it.

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Its not eugenics it's just a reversion to natural pressures. Eugenics would imply that there is an artificial pressure causing the deaths.

The fact is most of us would likely not be here if not for modern medicine.

[–] praxispotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 hours ago

I’m not saying this child died due to eugenics. I’m saying that calling situations like this fine because the parents “deserve it” for being stupid is eugenicist thinking. It is justifying the child’s death because the parents are stupid and shouldn’t procreate anyway. Why not? Inferior genetics?

The child deserved to live in a world where even with stupid parents, they get adequate modern healthcare and can thrive. Instead they died, and that’s horrible, and saying “it’s fine because the parents were stupid” is horrible.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

That means stupid people would have to run the State and make those rules.

Well, shit…

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 8 hours ago

post-birth abortion.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Etterra@discuss.online 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Charge the parents with first degree murder.

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 14 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (8 children)

Negligent homicide. They didn't plan to kill their kids, they did it accidentally by virtue of their ignorance and ego.

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[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 114 points 23 hours ago (6 children)

So when do they arrest the parents for murder like they would a woman who had a miscsrriage?

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 14 points 17 hours ago

What do you expect them to do? The umbilical was already cut, so they don’t care anymore.

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 45 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Oh you know that only applies to the mothers and only before a successful birth because cruelty and hatred toward women is the point.

[–] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 30 points 22 hours ago

Also they don't care about people once they're born

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[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 24 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Arrest them? Its not like they let their kid walk a block to the store on their own. /s

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[–] el_muerte@lemmy.ca 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Makes me feel like a piece of shit saying it, but those kids are probably better off dead rather than being raised in an antivaxxer household where they're going to be indoctrinated with all that idiotic bullshit, forced to attend "parties" with diseased kids to intentionally catch their illnesses, probably have no chance at higher education thanks to shitty religious based homeschooling, take a bunch of quack medicine when they are ill ranging from useless to actively harmful, and possibly experience permanent damage from a preventable disease. Just seems like a lifetime of needless suffering.

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You never know, I was raised evangelical and Ive managed to have a good life once I got out of there.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 8 hours ago

seen alot of those stories yt, ultra conservative people leaivng thier bubble and flourishing, but i wish they actually come out and say its evangelical,christanity instead of trying to obfuscate what thier saying.

[–] VinegarChunks@lemmus.org 34 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I have four natural born kids and all of them had their Vitamin K shots, and I would do it again in a heartbeat. I trust my doctors’ recommendations on what course of action is best, knowing that there are risks and benefits to any medical treatment, and we do these treatments because the benefits outweigh the risks.

With that said, the article doesn’t mention that the risk of the vitamin K shot is that the newborn’s bilirubin levels can be raised far enough that they have to be treated for it. One of my daughters had to be blindfolded and put under a very bright blue light for several hours or maybe it was overnight, which is not a nice thing to see your newborn go through.

But it is surely better than seeing them bleed to death.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 33 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

One of my daughters had to be blindfolded and put under a very bright blue light for several hours or maybe it was overnight, which is not a nice thing to see your newborn go through.

Completely painless and done every single day in any NICU.

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[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 158 points 1 day ago (5 children)

An HHS spokesperson did not respond to questions but in an email blamed the administration of former President Joe Biden for the rise in parents rejecting vitamin K shots. “Vitamin K at birth,” the spokesperson added, “remains the standard of care.”

For fuck's sake. These assholes can't even take responsibility for the results of what they're spewing.

[–] homes@piefed.world 57 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

Do you have a Justin Trudeau version for Canada.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 84 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"party of personal responsibility"

It's all projection.

[–] notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 21 points 21 hours ago

Seriously!!!!

Remember when most of their grievances were about an overreaching government that dictated how they lived their lives? Now that their party is in power that’s all they want to fucking do to the rest of us.

How does ‘personal responsibility’ translate into ‘I don’t want this and you shouldn’t have it either’?

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[–] morysal@lemmy.world 57 points 23 hours ago (7 children)

It’s wild how many parents are terrified of a vitamin shot but completely comfortable trusting random wellness influencers with zero medical background. And the really tragic part is that newborns don’t exactly get a second chance if the gamble goes wrong.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 8 hours ago

also listeing to a QUCK DOCTOR, AND person with brainworms. they also would inject GLP-1 because, they look thinner with it.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

China recently decimated their (previously thriving) influencer ecosystem, simply by requiring that health influencers have documented health education, financial influencers have finance education, etc… China implemented the rule, and immediately banned like ~95% of all their health influencers. The rule targets both individual influencers and the platforms that host them. And no platform wants to stick their neck out and eat fines for some random influencer. So influencers who didn’t have documented education got banned basically overnight.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 7 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

IDK if China is really a great example here, considering how many Chinese doctors will still tell you that drinking cold water is bad for you, and garlic makes people horny.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 8 hours ago

they still do that, and using endangered animals and plants. one example is the cordyceps that affect caterpillars in the steppes, they harvested so much that it so much that they couldnt sustain the demand, because its a complex lifecycle for the fungi and caterpillar.

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