Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.
Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.
For when a child is born the mother also is born again.
It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
The birth mother is placing the baby out of love. I still believe that. Well, the ones we've dealt with who were actually pregnant, anyway.
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.
The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.
In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.
Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.