Silent Birth and Idiots

Well, it's been a long time since I've done a post on Tom Cruise but this was just too good.

I was watching a news report this morning with a Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld on FOX News about the "silent birth" procedure that Cruise's "religion" demands. Here's what MSN.com said about the procedure:

"The doctrine also states that newborns cannot be poked or prodded for medical tests or even spoken to for the first seven days of their lives, believing that babies go through so much pain during the birth, they shouldn't have to experience any further discomfort or sensory experience that could return later in life to haunt them."

Rosenfeld's take was that this policy could actually be harmful to the child. Remember that a child in the womb is NOT deaf and they can hear an awful lot going around, including the voice of the parents. In fact, it's believed this is soothing to the child. (Think of "imprinting" with horses and other animals.) So now, born under this "religion" you are supposed to actually take away stimulus from a newborn.

Note too that the doctor is not allowed to have any tests done for a week after birth. I understand that there are a lot of religions out there that don't like modern medicine. They have their opinion, I have mine.

I weep for the baby Zenu.