This is what republicans want to do here, by cutting out the WIC program. (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. When the only help for the poor was charity, this happened here.

republicans will post about how horrible it is to abort "babies", and also post articles against funding WIC.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/feb/12/venezuela-crisis-babies-die-malnutrition-depression-deprivation-infant-mortality

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/feb/12/venezuela-crisis-babies-die-malnutrition-depression-deprivation-infant-mortality

Wed 12 Feb 2020 02.45 EST

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Less than 48 hours earlier Yaretzi had become the latest baby to fall victim to a merciless health emergency sweeping Venezuela – one that is exacting a particularly harsh toll on its youngest citizens.

“As a mum, it’s a pain that you will never overcome,” her shellshocked mother, Yangelis, mumbled as she prepared for her final farewell.

Infant mortality rates had been falling almost continuously in Venezuela since the 1940s – and almost halved in the 12 years after Hugo Chávez took power in 1999.

But as the oil-rich South American country enters the seventh year of a crushing depression critics blame on industrial-scale corruption, incompetence and mismanagement, doctors are seeing that trend reversed as deprivation-related cases of severe malnutrition condemn babies like Yaretzi to an early grave.

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