Poor World Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“The World Health Organization estimates that 536,000 women perished in pregnancy or childbirth in 2005, a toll that has barely budged in thirty years.…

— Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Like my sister, 981 women die every day on Earth from pregnancy and birth-related complications.

— Robin Lim

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.

— Jessica Capshaw

“all over the world women are impeded from protecting their own and their babies’ health, and often survival, because of factors beyond their control.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

There is a largely-ignored healthcare calamity in the United States that sees between two and three women die every day during pregnancy and childbirth.

— Robin Lim

“The equivalent of five jumbo jets’ worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered. The remedy? America…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It is surely a matter…

— Navi Pillay

Every second minute, a woman or a girl dies in the world due to pregnancy.

— Isabella Lovin

So far it has been assumed that the only pregnancies which are aborted are accidental ones and the only foetuses destroyed those whose mothers…

— Germaine Greer

“Many women think it is birth itself which is damaging and are unaware that it is an intervention which caused the problem.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

— Liya Kebede