Comments on: A Campaign Asking Mums to go Silent this Mothers Day http://unclutteredwhitespaces.com/2012/05/a-campaign-asking-mums-to-go-silent-this-mothers-day/ the digital magazine about good ideas Wed, 08 May 2013 03:29:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Courtney van der Weyden http://unclutteredwhitespaces.com/2012/05/a-campaign-asking-mums-to-go-silent-this-mothers-day/comment-page-1/#comment-6113 Courtney van der Weyden Sun, 06 May 2012 08:23:26 +0000 http://unclutteredwhitespaces.com/?p=12303#comment-6113 Good pick up Monica, it’s worldwide. However during 2004-05 68,000 women lost their lives giving birth in the USA alone.

]]> By: Monica Lynne Bower http://unclutteredwhitespaces.com/2012/05/a-campaign-asking-mums-to-go-silent-this-mothers-day/comment-page-1/#comment-6105 Monica Lynne Bower Thu, 03 May 2012 20:11:00 +0000 http://unclutteredwhitespaces.com/?p=12303#comment-6105 Um, in 2010 fewer than 700 women died in childbirth in the US. Not to spoil a great campaign, but the numbers are grotesquely misleading. Rates are much higher in the US than Europe, because sadly more US mothers are obese and more US mothers choose unnecessary C-sections than those in Europe which are major surgeries often not treated as such. Mortality rates among developing African and Asian countries utterly dwarf those of the US and EU, and the worst place to survive childbirth on Earth is Afghanistan where the rate is fully 94 times higher than in the US. Worse for this campaign, the rate has actually dropped steeply worldwide by 35% in the last 30 years. The actual 2010 report is on the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s website. 

Not sure what this charity is up to, but this seems to be a gross misrepresentation of the facts. Too bad, because the campaign looks great.

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