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HW 13: Favorite Post of the week from…Feministing

As I was looking around on Feministing, when I found a blogroll called “f-words.”  I decided to read a few of this (woman’s?) blogs.  She hadn’t been posting much lately but I found a blog she had written on the subject of “child death.”  Apparently, Idaho is the only state that doesn’t examine child death.  They were heading in the right direction towards now making it official to do so, when a woman by the name of Patti Anne Lodge, a Senate Health and Welfare Chairwoman decided it unnecessary.  Her argument was that if every other state is examining child death, why should Idaho have to?  They can just take the information from other states and get what they need through that.  Unfortunately, that was just her initial statement was.  She then had the bill returned so it would not be passed, and brought up topics about the outcome of such a bill.  Her questions were such as “Could this lead to maybe more usurping of freedom?  Could parents be charged?”  f-words blogger’s only statement was “Well, if they’re committing crimes that lead to their children’s deaths, I sure hope so.”

                Although Lodge made the claim that if Idaho’s surrounding states collected the data, there would be nothing different between them and Idaho when it came to child deaths.  However, I feel it’s a bit moronic to believe that.  Idaho is its own state with different people, different crimes, and different situation.  I’m sure that if you looked at children’s deaths between New Hampshire, and a more populated state such as New York or Massachusetts, the statistics would be nowhere near the same.  Every state should have to take their own data, and f-words blogger is right, if parents are committing acts or crimes that would lead to their child’s death, then of course they should be charged.