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[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 hours ago

You know, if these parents believe they know better than medical professionals, why are they going to a medical facility to have their babies anyway? I feel it is just a waste of resources. Medical staff are stretched pretty thin already. Why waste time on people that will just ignore professional advice? Let them deal on their own, they obviously know better.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Why do doctors have to listen to parents? If a parent abuses a child the child gets taken away but if he abuses a baby somehow it's ok?

[–] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

To a degree, parents have the right to reject medical treatment for a child. There must be an immediate threat to the child's life or health to ignore their refusal. A preventative vitamin shot is not such a case. Superseding the parents' wishes here would require a court order.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 hours ago

Tell that to the bloodless babies

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 5 points 17 hours ago

party of pro-life?

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago
[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.

This is how bad the wider world of journalism has got, that having a human write a synopsis is now seen as bragging rights.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 23 hours ago

yea because it was mostly clickbait(which buzzfeed pioneered) and now AI generated.

[–] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Oral vitamin K1 is almost as effective as injected K1, and most countries seem to offer it orally as an alternative to injected. Oral is pretty much just as effective as injected. 1, 2

The article doesn't mention oral. Is it still not approved in the US? (It's the same formulation as that injected).

It's very cheap. In Australia it costs ~9AUD (~7USD) for a single dose vial with oral syringe without subsidies.

[–] GarboDog@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

We personally don’t know the semantics as to why it’s not approved orally, however regardless of it being a shot or a drug shouldn’t matter if it’s gonna save the baby in the end.

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[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I used to feel this was a tragedy. Now I feel that those parents aren't intelligent enough to have children. They deserve what they got. The child died but it was probably going to of something else stupid at some point anyway. A century ago, before we had all the modern medical procedures, a large percentage of children didn't make it to adulthood. That is going to be the new norm for the parents who know better than "the elites".

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

On the other hand, some supposedly intelligent people are so doubtful of the world that they become hesitant at bringing a child in.

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[–] praxispotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Be careful. “Stupid people shouldn’t procreate” sounds like a good idea until the state deems you too stupid to deserve life. That’s eugenics. And it never stops with the people you think deserve it.

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Its not eugenics it's just a reversion to natural pressures. Eugenics would imply that there is an artificial pressure causing the deaths.

The fact is most of us would likely not be here if not for modern medicine.

I’m not saying this child died due to eugenics. I’m saying that calling situations like this fine because the parents “deserve it” for being stupid is eugenicist thinking. It is justifying the child’s death because the parents are stupid and shouldn’t procreate anyway. Why not? Inferior genetics?

The child deserved to live in a world where even with stupid parents, they get adequate modern healthcare and can thrive. Instead they died, and that’s horrible, and saying “it’s fine because the parents were stupid” is horrible.

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[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 90 points 1 day ago (6 children)

So when do they arrest the parents for murder like they would a woman who had a miscsrriage?

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Oh you know that only applies to the mothers and only before a successful birth because cruelty and hatred toward women is the point.

[–] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 day ago

Also they don't care about people once they're born

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[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

What do you expect them to do? The umbilical was already cut, so they don’t care anymore.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Arrest them? Its not like they let their kid walk a block to the store on their own. /s

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[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 125 points 1 day ago (5 children)

An HHS spokesperson did not respond to questions but in an email blamed the administration of former President Joe Biden for the rise in parents rejecting vitamin K shots. “Vitamin K at birth,” the spokesperson added, “remains the standard of care.”

For fuck's sake. These assholes can't even take responsibility for the results of what they're spewing.

[–] homes@piefed.world 52 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Do you have a Justin Trudeau version for Canada.

[–] homes@piefed.world 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Sorry, I was too busy being jealous of how much better he was than our president

Seriously, wtf was wrong with that guy?

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 70 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"party of personal responsibility"

It's all projection.

[–] notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 day ago

Seriously!!!!

Remember when most of their grievances were about an overreaching government that dictated how they lived their lives? Now that their party is in power that’s all they want to fucking do to the rest of us.

How does ‘personal responsibility’ translate into ‘I don’t want this and you shouldn’t have it either’?

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[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 23 hours ago

post-birth abortion.

[–] VinegarChunks@lemmus.org 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have four natural born kids and all of them had their Vitamin K shots, and I would do it again in a heartbeat. I trust my doctors’ recommendations on what course of action is best, knowing that there are risks and benefits to any medical treatment, and we do these treatments because the benefits outweigh the risks.

With that said, the article doesn’t mention that the risk of the vitamin K shot is that the newborn’s bilirubin levels can be raised far enough that they have to be treated for it. One of my daughters had to be blindfolded and put under a very bright blue light for several hours or maybe it was overnight, which is not a nice thing to see your newborn go through.

But it is surely better than seeing them bleed to death.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 day ago (3 children)

One of my daughters had to be blindfolded and put under a very bright blue light for several hours or maybe it was overnight, which is not a nice thing to see your newborn go through.

Completely painless and done every single day in any NICU.

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[–] morysal@lemmy.world 55 points 1 day ago (7 children)

It’s wild how many parents are terrified of a vitamin shot but completely comfortable trusting random wellness influencers with zero medical background. And the really tragic part is that newborns don’t exactly get a second chance if the gamble goes wrong.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 day ago (6 children)

China recently decimated their (previously thriving) influencer ecosystem, simply by requiring that health influencers have documented health education, financial influencers have finance education, etc… China implemented the rule, and immediately banned like ~95% of all their health influencers. The rule targets both individual influencers and the platforms that host them. And no platform wants to stick their neck out and eat fines for some random influencer. So influencers who didn’t have documented education got banned basically overnight.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Charge the parents with first degree murder.

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

Negligent homicide. They didn't plan to kill their kids, they did it by accident by virtue of their ignorance and ego.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 52 points 1 day ago (10 children)

I was wondering when the MAHA vaccine fixation would bleed over to simply anything that comes from a needle.

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[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 1 day ago (3 children)
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