Affected Quote by Robin Lim

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

With women composing nearly half the American workforce and increasingly serving as the primary breadwinner for families, we can't afford to treat pregnant women…

— Valerie Jarrett

As indicated by the increase in maternal mortality in 2010, right now it's more dangerous to give birth in California than in Kuwait or…

— Jessica Valenti

Ethnic minority women generally have poorer outcomes from their pregnancy compared to white women.

— Konnie Huq

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

— Liya Kebede

“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

Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability

— William Rehnquist

Pregnancy is treated like an illness in some sections of our society.

— Lara Dutta

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

— 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

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