Stories of Mothers Lost: Death of Birth Mothers - Mothers for a Day!


	Stories of Mothers Lost: Death of Birth Mothers - Mothers for a Day!

righthand

5-2-2008 6:18 AM

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Video and lengthy article at source. Well worth the time to inform yourself.

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<FONT face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Once a minute, somewhere in the world, a woman dies in pregnancy or childbirth. The tragedy, says Kira Cochrane, is that most of these deaths could be prevented</FONT></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,,2277551,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">Mesfin's death starts on the day of her birth, in an Ethiopian village</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,,2277551,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">circumcised by a local woman, and by the age of seven, with no education, she was put to work looking after her family's cattle.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,,2277551,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">At 13, she was abducted and raped by a 32-year-old farmer, who married her; soon afterwards, she became pregnant</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,,2277551,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">complications proved too difficult </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,,2277551,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">carried Mesfin to the nearest hospital, where both she and her baby died. She was 15</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,,2277551,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">conservative estimate of 536,000 maternal deaths each year</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,,2277551,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">toll could be as high as 872,000</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,,2277551,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">in the poorest, most conflict-riven countries, including Niger, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone, that figure rises to a stark, inexcusable, one in eight</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DCB3535A-63DF-4C54-9E6E-08FE4F1DBC06/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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