1 in 16 if you’re Poor, 1 in 7 if you Have No Rights
birth, campaign, health, maternal, mothers, pregnancy, rights
In some of the world’s poorest countries, women still die in pregnancy and childbirth at what is essentially the same rate as the Middle Ages. Nature seems to have given odds of around 16 to 1 of successfully making it through pregnancy and childbirth without any medical help or modern advances in hygiene. Unbelievably, women in the poorest countries still face this same risk TODAY when entering each pregnancy. (more…)