Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.
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.
Often, women who lose babies are blamed for the loss of those children and are ostracised.
A lot of women use pregnancy as an excuse to let their bodies go, and that's the worst thing.
Abortion is child mortality.
Having children is what a woman is born for, really.
We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant.
Too many mothers have lost their children, for thousands of different reasons.
I think pregnancy is a huge responsibility.
There's no substitute for the experience of childbearing or child rearing.