Calamity Quote by Robin Lim

“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

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

— Jessica Capshaw

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

— 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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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