Word: infantalizing
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Fortunately, liberals have another political weapon at their disposal--infants. The Rust decision will likely raise infant mortality rates among low-income populations. And these "babies" are actual infants under anyone's definition, not the potential lives that fall under the right-to-lifers' semantic extension of the word...
...American health care. More than 30 million citizens have no health insurance at all. Few among the rest of us are free from fear of losing our insurance or finding it insufficient. Costs are soaring -- over 12% of GNP, by far the world's highest -- yet our longevity and infant-mortality rates are nothing to brag about. But an hour's wait to pay $120 for a few minutes of a doctor's time nicely illustrates how our system combines some of the worst aspects of both capitalism and socialism...
...brinkmanship, the mayor has targeted many worthy projects. He would slash education by $579 million, which means fewer teachers and larger classes -- even as enrollment leaps by 18,000 this year. He has marked 10 homeless shelters for closing. With tears in his eyes, Dinkins announced cuts in the infant-mortality program...
...right against abortion and for school prayer, he has linked himself to issues like education and the environment. In a state whose per pupil expenditures rank near the bottom nationally, Campbell has helped increase state funding for schools. He has also provided money for public health programs to combat infant mortality...
...because I had no government 'minder' with me," she says. Officials were equally reticent, frequently glancing at omnipresent portraits of Saddam Hussein as if seeking approval of their statements. Still, there were flashes of honesty. At a hospital in Basra, Marlowe asked a mother with a dying infant what had happened in the city. "She can't answer a question like that with all these people around," said the government interpreter. "Look at the pain in her eyes and you will see the answer." Says Marlowe: "I realized that only one man had the right to speak his mind...