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International: The Lottery of Life-Where to be born in 2013

Dec. 6th, 2012 04:29 pm
[identity profile] lynn82md.livejournal.com
Warren Buffett, probably the world’s most successful investor, has said that anything good that happened to him could be traced back to the fact that he was born in the right country, the United States, at the right time (1930). A quarter of a century ago, when The World in 1988 light-heartedly ranked 50 countries according to where would be the best place to be born in 1988, America indeed came top. But which country will be the best for a baby born in 2013?

To answer this, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a sister company of The Economist, has this time turned deadly serious. It earnestly attempts to measure which country will provide the best opportunities for a healthy, safe and prosperous life in the years ahead.

Its quality-of-life index links the results of subjective life-satisfaction surveys—how happy people say they are—to objective determinants of the quality of life across countries. Being rich helps more than anything else, but it is not all that counts; things like crime, trust in public institutions and the health of family life matter too. In all, the index takes 11 statistically significant indicators into account. They are a mixed bunch: some are fixed factors, such as geography; others change only very slowly over time (demography, many social and cultural characteristics); and some factors depend on policies and the state of the world economy.

A forward-looking element comes into play, too. Although many of the drivers of the quality of life are slow-changing, for this ranking some variables, such as income per head, need to be forecast. We use the EIU’s economic forecasts to 2030, which is roughly when children born in 2013 will reach adulthood.

What are your thoughts about this? I'm not surprised that the country I'm currently residing is in the top 5.
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Ethicists Argue for Acceptance of "After-Birth Abortions" as Newborns aren't Persons

Feb. 29th, 2012 07:54 pm
[identity profile] lynn82md.livejournal.com
Two ethicists working with Australian universities argue in the latest online edition of the Journal of Medical Ethics that if abortion of a fetus is allowable, so to should be the termination of a newborn.

First of all, I want to vocally say that as a pro-choicer I DO NOT support what these two people in the article are advocating for. I do think that many pro-choicers would agree with me on this for a few reasons.

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Personally, I don't believe in killing a born entity unless it's for survival purposes (i.e self-defense, for food-with animals). I mean, the biggest reason why I had been pro-life originally was because I mixed up abortion with infantside since I thought it was killing a baby (a newborn). So, of course I'm not going to support that even as a pro-choicer. Sorry to these Ethicists. IMO, you are advocating infantside and I don't support choices like that.
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Petition for Choice

Oct. 12th, 2010 07:39 pm
[identity profile] lynn82md.livejournal.com
Saw this story from another pro-choice community and figure I share it here.
On Tuesday a young Australian couple will face criminal charges and possible imprisonment for having an abortion in Queensland. Reproductive choice belongs in the health code, not the criminal code - please join the national petition for choice today:
An overwhelming majority of Australians believe that a woman's reproductive choice should not be subject to criminal punishment.

But in Queensland, as in other Australian states and territories, women and doctors can be tried under 19th century criminal codes and face years of imprisonment for choosing an abortion. These laws have already seen women seeking abortions after sexual assault turned away from public hospitals, and left doctors fearing imprisonment for providing advice and treatment.

Please Premier Bligh, ensure abortion is dealt with in the health code, not the criminal code.

I signed it
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