pro-life?

[realthog]

There's a story by Mohammed Omer across at the excellent IPS News that deserves, I think, some wider consideration. It begins:

Siege Hits Palestinians Before They Are Born

Mohammed Omer 

GAZA CITY, May 14 (IPS) - The Israeli siege of Gaza that has restricted access to food, water and medicine is now beginning to hit unborn children and newborn babies.

"Many babies are born suffering from anaemia that they have inherited from their mothers," Dr Salah al-Rantisi, head of the women's health department at the Palestinian ministry of health in Gaza told IPS. And the mothers are becoming anaemic because they do not now get enough nutrition through pregnancy.

The full, infinitely sad story can be read at http://www.ipsnews.net:80/news.asp?idnews=42367.
 

Comments

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

Have you seen Cockburn's over-this-weekend article on Counterpunch?

It's here -- "View From The Crusader's Castle."

Love, C.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Many thanks for the link to this interesting piece.

(Though I must say Cockburn has slumped in my estimation ever since he started his stupid Global Warming denial stuff.)