“I have learned that it is mothers who keep families together — indeed, who keep entire societies intact. Mothers are society’s weavers … no woman should have to pay with her life for giving life,” proclaimed UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon earlier this year.
Paying the ultimate price of life to deliver the ultimate gift to humanity — the promise and hope of a newborn child — is both “shocking and shameful” in the words of British Prime Minister David Cameron. With 3,500 participants from nearly 150 countries attending the Women Deliver conference earlier this month in Washington, “we have the world’s attention,” declared Melinda Gates in her keynote address. “Now, the world is changing.”
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