Birth Quote by Robin Lim

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

It is a country that professes to care for babies. But in the United States, the infant death rate is twice as high as…

— Annie Lowrey

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

“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

My sister and the baby she was carrying died in the United States of America. They died in the country that spends more money…

— Robin Lim

Sixty-eight percent of the pregnancies in the United States are neither prepared for nor expected. Of those sixty-eight percent, quite a bit end in…

— Laura Huxley

Pregnant women who are at risk for suffering complications and even death are in the prime of their lives. The most affected populations are…

— Robin Lim

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

— Nicholas D. Kristof

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

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

— Liya Kebede

No mother should worry about dying during childbirth in the twenty-first century - and rising maternal death rates in the United States should spark…

— Abigail Spanberger

“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