Check your facts â the âcrack babyâ scare was a hoax. Google it, plus âPublic Radioâ.
Yes, weâre overdue for another Danger Baby. Letâs check the list:
Crack Babies
Anchor Babies
Opioid Babies
Meth Babies
Beanie Babies
Crack Babies
Anchor Babies
Opioid Babies
Meth Babies
Beanie Babies
Pork Babies
And then one of the babies looked at me.
Children of thalidomide
Jelly Babies
Phonics, on the other hand, horribly, terribly real⌠
I did that. I got
studies have failed to clearly show that PCE has negative cognitive effects, partly because such effects may be due to concurrent factors.[7] Pregnant mothers who use cocaine often use other drugs in addition, or they may be malnourished and lacking in medical care. Children in households where cocaine is abused are at risk of violence and neglect, and those in foster care may experience problems due to unstable family situations. Factors such as poverty that are frequently associated with PCE have a much stronger influence on childrenâs intellectual and academic abilities than does exposure to cocaine in isolation
Crack baby was shorthand for impacted babies born to parents who had lifestyle choices, often involving cocaine available in their neighborhoods, and not conducive to a healty outcome for the baby. Headlines are, and always will be, imprecise that way.
Funny what happens when you consider (or rule out) one factor in isolation, innit?
Handwave it aside, you go ahead an crack the hell out of your life when you (or your partner) are pregnant. Opiate the shit out of your days of pregnancy. It was just a liberal media hoax after all, you should be totes fine. I mean, heck, itâs a wonder cocaine isnât up there with Vitamins in the prenatal regime, amirite? Moms get tired and cranky, and donât want much sex⌠problem meets solution!
_Or mayb_e the concern was a reasonable response by fairly well meaning people in healthcare who were deeply concerned that it might have been the next Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and didnât want towait the full 20 years to do the full epidemiology before saying ANYTHING about it - one that was maybe run with by headline writers and those with an agenda to fulfill.
But to call it a hoax is as well informed and as well meaning as calling it an epidemic.
Senate tacks on a rider allowing open carry in hospitals and giving hundreds of millions more to Saudis Arabia.
Bill dies.
Meanwhile, the Governor of Maine just vetoed a similar bill, because those addicts are just going to kill themselves anyway. Yes, really.
Some one make a pic with a baby that says, âOpoids are a hell of a drug,â
See - this is why eventually everyone will have their eggs sucked out of them and put into little spheres and when you want a baby you have to order one from the baby farm.
By that measure, cancer treatment doesnât save lives, it just extends them until the next relapse.
And soup kitchens donât save lives, they just extend them until people get hungry again.
And coronary bypasses donât save lives, they just extend them until the next instance of heart failure.
I donât curse often, but Fuck this guy.
long past time to turn LePage.
I suspect that he knows full well that it saves lives; but that âSure, it saves lives; but they arenât really lives we want saved.â might go over poorly even among some of the law-and-order types.
Danger Baby, to the rescue!
Meanwhile, as legislators panic over illegal drug use, fetal alcohol syndrome is the real deal. It really does impact babies. And itâs caused by our legal drug of choice.
Itâs like they do this shit on purpose.
Was the Governor of Maine the same dude who was caught on tape worrying about black men coming up from NYC to take away young white women from Maine? Or was that another Maine politician? Is Maine secretly part of the deep south?
