In 2004, Congress enacted, and President Bush signed, the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which recognizes the “child in utero” as a legal victim if he or she is injured or killed during the commission of any of 68 existing federal crimes of violence. The law defines “child in utero” as “a member of the species Homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb”.
The population of Homo sapiens has experienced continuous growth since the end of the Black Death around the year 1400. The population of the more developed regions will remain mostly unchanged, at 1.2 billion. An exception is the population of the US which is expected to increase by 44 percent from 305 million in 2008, to 439 million in 2050. (1)
Overpopulation can result from an increase in births, a decline in mortality rates due to medical advances, or from an increase in immigration.(2)
Is better health-care in the US fueling overpopulation?
Medical advances and care would appear to be sound in the US. More money per person is spent on health care in the United States than in any other nation in the world. A greater percentage of total income in the nation is spent on health care than in any United Nations member state except for East Timor. The US has the third highest public health care expenditure per capital. It also has the highest number of mandated vaccines of any country in the world. (3)
You would expect this to mean lower infant mortality rates.
Although the under-5 mortality rate in the US has fallen in recent decades, it is still higher than many other wealthy nations – 2.3 times that of Iceland and more than 75 percent higher than the rate of the Czech Republic, Finland, Italy, Japan, Norway, Slovenia and Sweden. It comes in at 34th place for under 5 mortality.Why? read full article at Heroin and Cornflakes
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