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By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyJoy Szabo must be overjoyed. Szabo is the Arizona mother whose hospital insisted she would have to have a Cesarean section at the end of her fourth pregnancy, rather than a vaginal birth (VBAC or vaginal birth after Cesarean) -- even though she had already, successfully, had natural childbirth after a previous C-section. Not only would Szabo's hospital not let her labor, it promised to get a court-order to stop her from trying. Szabo took her case public, going on CNN, speaking to national media. And, rather than submit to surgery, Szabo -- whose story quickly flamed into a national ...
Melinda Gates on 350,000 Childbirth Deaths: 'We Can Prevent Most'
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyAshley Judd. Former President Michelle Bachelet of Chile. Former Prime Minister Helen Clark of New Zealand. Former Irish President and former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson. Journalist Christiane Amanpour. Model Christy Turlington. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. Singer Annie Lennox. Philanthropist Melinda Gates. All in Washington to discuss one thing: No woman should die giving life. And yet they are dying, in droves. Some 350,000 women lose their lives each year giving birth or through complications of childbearing. It's a number that the 3,500 attendees, from ...
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