Word: birthed
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...during the debate was the Objectivist's reliance on morally arbitrary and meaningless facts. For example, a person is to be left to die because one was born impoverished, and thus can contribute nothing to society, despite the fact that they had no control over the circumstances of their birth. And they consistenly ignore the fact that, while, say, Michael Jordan (to use an example from Prof. Sandel's Justice lectures) did work very hard to utilize his talents for basketball, those talents would have been all for naught without the City of Chicage (a government!) who built the stadium...
Women in the study who weighed less than 5.5 pounds at birth had about half the risk of breast cancer than women who weighed more than 8.8 pounds, according to the study, reported in last week's Lancet, a British medical journal...
...study shows a significant relationship between weight and future breast cancer risk," Karin Michels, an epidemiologist at the School of Public Health and the lead author of the study, said in a statement. "But this should not lead women to strive for lower birth weight while pregnant...
...authors suggested that the surge of maternal estrogen to the infant, which is correlated with higher birth weights, may be a factor that increases risk of breast cancer for the female fetus...
Those weighing between 7.7 and 8.8 pounds at birth were 14 percent less likely to get breast cancer than those weighing more than 8.8 pounds. The risk was about 32 percent lower at weights between 6.6 and 7.7 pounds and 34 percent lower between 6.6 and 5.5 pounds. Risks dropped 45 percent for weights under 5.5 pounds...