QUALITY OF LIFE IS AS IMPORTANT AS LIFE ITSELF

Just a year ago, a little girl was born.  I'd forgotten just how much energy this tiny being is capable of producing.  She walks, dances, and runs constantly between the few hours spent sleeping.  She is loving and with the openness of one who has not been taught to distrust, hate, discriminate, or otherwise see the world as a toxic environment.  Born to parents who planned for her birth (yes, using contraceptives until they were ready to have a family), she was wanted, well fed, protected, and enabled to develop with all the tools available for her comfort, stimulation, good nourishment and with aids for the development of her mind and body

This child is unaware of the cruelty in her world. She was not born to abject poverty, her parents were not selfish, substance abusers, nor even nice people out of work. She is growing to be a friendly, confident, bright child.  Had she lived in Africa. she likely would not have made it this far.






In 1994, Kevin Carter won a Pulitzer prize for this picture of what awaits babies born where the economy, food supply, nourishment, parental care, supply of love and tactile contact when it counts, is lacking..



Should we really allow the Republicans to make our infants equal in life's chances as they are in third world countries?  Shouldn't bringing a life into the world mean quality of life and not just a heart beat with breath, illness, suffering, and starvation until death before a year old?