Last week there was an Olympic celebration marking one year before the beginning of the 2008 Olympics.

That same day a Missouri judge struck down a provision of a new law that would have permitted certain trained midwives to deliver babies including home births.

You may ask, “What’s the connection between those two stories?”

The Olympics draws much attention from most Americans. The medals counts are proclaimed as big news day. Americans expect to have the most gold medals and the highest medals counts overall. If American totals are not at least near the top it is a great national disappointment.

Infant mortality is a measurement of babies surviving birth through their first year of life. America has not even ranked in the top 20 among the nations of the world for decades. In recent years America’s ranking has dropped into the 30s. Last weekend American researchers disclosed that America has dropped out of the top 40 for this matter relating to “the least of these” among us.

Can you imagine the national outcry if America did not even place in the top 40 for medals in the Olympics?

Where is the national outcry for American babies dying in greater amounts than 40 other nations of the world?

The Olympics are just games. Babies being born is real life – or real death in America as compared to 40 other nations of the world.

Midwives delivering babies is common place in nations around the world that surpass American infant mortality -- including in home birth settings. In America this practice is primarily outlawed or severely restricted.

Statistics on midwife deliveries regularly surpass those of medical doctor deliveries when it comes to infant mortality. Yet the Missouri State Murderousedical Association (MSMA) went to court to block midwife deliveries proclaiming that this would jeopardize patients.

“This is an important victory for the health and well-being of Missouri mothers and their babies,” was the official response from MSMA President Charles Van Way, III., M.D. to the court overturning legal deliveries of babies by certain trained midwives.

Is the MSMA protecting their financial intere$t with lies or is this just a matter of their gross ignorance of truth?

Matter of life and death in more ways than one …

It is not just a matter of life at its beginning but at its ending also in America where the disparity with nations of the world is of Olympic proportions.

Total life expectancy of Americans has also dropped out of the top 40 for the first time ever being ranked even lower than infant mortality among the nations of the world.

$pending per capita on health care is one place Americans rank first in the world. (Perhaps that should be spelled ‘phirst’ in deference to the pharmaceutical, government encouraged monopoly of health care – or rather sick care – in America). $pending in the world’s second place nation (England) is only half as much as America.

$pending at least twice as much as the rest of the world for modern medicine's so-called advancements American babies and Americans in general still die at a greater rate than more than 40 other nations of the world.

Medical Nazis?

Americans are deluged by information from government, pharmaceutical/medical and media sources continually about medical and health superiority though in life and death matters (just for starters) this is factually not so.

It was Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels that put forth telling a big lie often to fool people into being controlled.

You would be amazed at how much American medicine benefited from Nazi medical research including that at the expense of those in concentration camps.

Live and learn … or perhaps that would better be turned around as LEARN and LIVE.