Leader: Dying for change - The Guardian 3rd March 2008

It was Mothers' Day yesterday, and in those 24 hours about 1,500 women will have died giving birth, as they do every day of the year. Almost all the deaths will have been in the world's 75 poorest countries. Most would have been preventable in more affluent nations. Maternal health is a bald and unforgiving indicator of the state of a country's medical services - and its civil society. After all, most women give birth. A society that neglects their needs is a society that institutionally discriminates against women.

Link to Article