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Letter: ‘Pro-life’ should cover life after birth

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“Pro-life” should not simply focus on the birth part of life, but the whole lifespan.

It's hypocritical to claim that “all life is precious,” and be OK with caging children at the border.

ACEs (adverse childhood experiences) have proven that childhood trauma makes survivors 12 times more likely to die by suicide, and also puts them at much higher risk for many chronic physical diseases, including substance use disorder, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure — even cancer.

The reason for this is that trauma rewrites your DNA unless appropriate protective factors are put in place to mitigate the effects of childhood trauma.