Challenge Quote by Jessica Capshaw

“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

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

“Every year over half a million women (99% of them from the poor world) die from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

I survived a potentially life-threatening childbirth-related complication after delivering my daughter. I learned that hundreds of thousands of girls and women die each year…

— Christy Turlington

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

— Robin Lim

In an industrialized country as advanced as the United States, no mother should have the fear of dying during childbirth or in the following…

— Abigail Spanberger

Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that…

— Melinda Gates

Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it's not something that people focus on; it's…

— Liya Kebede

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Pregnancy takes a huge physical toll on your body. I have many friends who have had babies and many of them require medical help…

— Abigail Tarttelin

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

“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