Liya Kebede Quotes

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

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

There's a saying in Africa: 'To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.'

When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky to be under the care of trained health care personnel. I started wondering then what was happening to women in rural villages.

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

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

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

For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, and their children are more likely to die in infancy.

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.

Adults worldwide can today look forward to a life-expectancy of 60 plus. But not young Pakistani women: they die like flies, daily, during childbirth...

After delivering my daughter in 2003, I endured and survived a hemorrhage, the leading childbirth-related complication that takes the lives of thousands of other mothers all over the world.

Improved maternal health benefits the whole of society.

I am particularly interested in helping to heal women who have a fistula after their pregnancies.

Every woman, whoever she is, wherever she lives, should be able to give birth without the fear she's going to lose her baby or that her baby will lose her mother.

It is incumbent upon us to respond to the unique needs of military women and ensure they receive proper care during the first year following childbirth.

I taught woman-centered childbirth classes for five years and have a particular interest in the history of childbirth practices.

We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.

The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.

President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding.

The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.

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

Abortion is now safer for a woman than childbirth.

Africa needs birth control far less than it needs death control.