#8. National Center for Stillbirth Research
 

Create a private sector "National Center for Stillbirth Research" to serve as a central repository for extant stillbirth data, case studies, published articles, and related information. Build a knowledge base that to comprise the core information needed to facilitate empirical analysis into the causes of unexplained stillbirths, the area of stillbirth most likely to lend itself to simple eradication.

Grass fires are easier to extinguish than forest fires. And the stillbirths of late term babies, who are "perfect" in every respect and whose death defies diagnosis, should be capable of being prevented easier than those wherein fetal death is the result of an identifiable cause.

"Unknown causes" are said to exceed stillbirths for identifiable causes. That means there are 15,000+ babies dying for no apparent reason. The prevention of stillbirths for known causes, and the development of treatment protocols for women who have been diagnosed with one of the known causes, may exceed the fiscal capability of a private center. With a $1.3 billion annual budget the National Institute of Human Development has more money to devote to the search for the obscure and presently untreatable conditions that tend to cause stillbirths, and for that reason we will work cooperatively with them sharing our research and offering input on theirs.

The NCSR will primarily engage in empirical studies using the knowledge base acquired from national and international sources, and as funds become available, will venture into such medical research as may help uncover the cause of late-term stillbirths where there has been no determinable cause found.
 
 


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