Health & Fitness
In 2012, Women Still Die After Delivering the Wrong Baby Or, No Baby
We know about India and Afghanistan, but where else are women dying simply because of the output — or lack thereof — from their uterus?
Last month about this time, I tripped over this heartbreaking headline from India: "Childless Woman Hangs Self".
Only recently did I find another "headline tells the tale" about a different but related horror that occurred at just about the same time, in Afghanistan: "Afghan Woman Killed: She Failed to Have Son."
Ooh! There it is again: A wave of pain for that woman. For the world she lives in. For the world I live in. An empathetic ache in the chest, a tightening that squints the eyes and makes my eyebrows diagonal slants of sadness.
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In this instance (because surely there are others), soon after a young Afghan woman delivered her third daughter, her husband and his mother strangled and buried her.
Deep in the NY Times story is this tearjerker: "There were signs of torture that led to suspicions [she] had been killed."
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Say a prayer. Support organizations like Women For Women or Global Fund for Women. Stay awake and give a damn.