"a woman dies every 35 minutes because of problems from pregnancy or childbirth"

[ensho]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/opinion/19kristof.html


His Maternal Instinct


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People in the West are properly outraged by Taliban oppression of women in parts of Pakistan. But some of the greatest suffering of women here isn’t political or religious. It comes simply from the inattention to maternal health care.

Here in Pakistan, a woman dies every 35 minutes because of problems from pregnancy or childbirth, according to United Nations figures.

The underlying reason is that maternal health has never been a priority globally, either to poor countries or to foreign aid donors like the United States. The only exceptions are Britain and Norway, and I hope the Obama administration will back them up.

In this part of Pakistan, Sindh Province, there is a saying that goes: If your cow dies, that is a tragedy; if your wife dies, you can always get another.
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sigh

the world wide male war against women continues

[aikoaiko]

1. Is this something you wrote or are you quoting someone else?

:shrug:

[ensho]

3. sorry, forgot to put in the link

I don't make up things

[HeresyLives]

2. Here's a link for it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/opinion/19kristof.html

[timeforpeace]

4. "maternal health has never been a priority globally" BS, focus on the Taliban, and leave off with

the moral equivalence.

[winyanstaz]

6. It can't be BS if it's true..

Women's health and women's right have NEVER to date been a GLOBAL priority. If they were global priorities, we would have them world wide and women wouldn't be dropping dead all over the world from inadequate pregnancy care etc.
Women world-wide would have better birth control, better education, equal pay and a say over our own bodies if women were ever a priority.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

5. Wow, even Jesus didn't resurrect that often. Much less alternate with getting pregnant. -nt

[proteus_lives]

7. "the world wide male war against women continues"

So Pakistan is the whole world now?

Well, I'm launching a world-wide war against bombastic, melodramatic statements.

[TexasObserver]

8. "I'm gonna take a story about one thing and make it about another thing!"

Not actually a quote from the OP, but might as well have been.

The "man bad, woman good" theme is the single most oft repeated bigotry seen at DU.