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Childbirth constitutes the luck of the draw.
Alan (Anthony Steffen), an English multi-millionaire with a few screws loose (thanks to his first wife's infidelity and untimely death during childbirth), entices sexy, red-headed women to his castle, offering them bundles of cash to stay the weekend.
STRANGELOVE [1964] and FAIL-SAFE [1964]) and mercifully short, the film's single-minded approach to its subject matter results in a good deal of unintentional laughter - particularly in the scenes involving an imminent childbirth and a gang of clueless juvenile delinquents!
Mr. Steffen is haunted by wife "Evelyn", who died in childbirth.
Seventy-five years ago, it was not uncommon for women to die during childbirth.
However, the real tone of the story is rather sad and moving: The hard life of the musicians, trying to make a living, the mother- and wife-less home of the band leader, who lost both in childbirth.
Despite the Industrial Revolution and the consequent leaps and bounds of technological progress childbirth and womens' health was very much a side issue in a patriarchal society.Colin's father has no interest in his son's upbringing despite - or,arguably,because of the fact that his wife,whom he clearly loved had died giving birth to the boy.He is an intelligent man and knows that such an attitude is not reasonable,but it is the status quo for a man of his position .That he loves and understands children is made clear by his attitude towards Mary and his defence of her against Mrs Medlock,but his gender and his own upbringing are not easy forces for him to overcome.
As a study of unfulfilled lives it is never less than perceptive and is often quite touching, the boy at the football match, the childbirth scene, reactions to the son's answerphone message and the death of a dog where our sympathies suddenly shift from the tormented to the neighbours from hell.
Victor's mother died from ILLNESS, not childbirth!
It is already educating parents and guardians about how to talk to their children about sexual health; providing skills training to teenage mothers; and working to break the cycle of poverty and early childbirth.
Cervical cancer now kills more women than childbirth, claiming a life every two minutes.
Moreover, 536,000 women a year die in childbirth, and maternal health is also the one MDG progress towards which has stagnated since the targets were established 10 years ago.
Not long after the program began, a young woman named Debora, who was under the care of a local health worker, began bleeding uncontrollably during childbirth.
When children have children, they face significant health risks; indeed, complications from pregnancy and childbirth are among the leading causes of death for girls aged 15-19 in low- and middle-income countries.
They are vulnerable to the complications of early pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, fistulas, and death in childbirth.
Globally, complications related to pregnancy and childbirth are the second leading cause of death among those aged 15 to 19, after suicide.
Today, there are many more women doctors in Iran than under the Shah, and the number of women dying at childbirth is among the lowest in the region.
Stopping Women’s Next Biggest KillerGENEVA – For women, the act of bringing life into this world has historically meant risking their own lives, with the real prospect of death during childbirth.
For the first time, the number of deaths caused by cervical cancer every year is poised to outstrip the total caused by childbirth.
Since 1990, the number of women dying as a result of childbirth has been nearly halved, to 289,000 per year.
A UNESCO project demonstrated that “each additional year of a mother’s schooling reduces the probability of the infant mortality rate by 5% to 10%”The health advantages of education extend beyond childbirth and infant health.
Women such as Leonora Pocaterrazas, 21, who died in childbirth not long ago in the mountain village of Columpapa Grande, Bolivia, leaving her husband to raise three other children on his own.
For women in the developing world, by contrast, dying in childbirth is simply a fact of life.
Complications from pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death among girls aged 15 to 19 worldwide.
In the United States, just 100 years ago, women were roughly 100 times more likely to die in childbirth than they are today.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of women die in childbirth, 99% of them in developing countries.
The MDG’s also address the scourges of maternal death in childbirth, lack of access to safe drinking water, and killer diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and AIDS.
At the extreme, more than 400 African women and girls die every day during pregnancy or childbirth, scarring families and plunging surviving children into hardship.
Girls under 15 are five times more likely than women in their twenties to die during pregnancy and childbirth.
This means that, if KMET continues to provide abortion services to women in Kenya, where 30-40% of hospitalizations of women are associated with unsafe abortions, it will lose the funding it needs to perform the similarly lifesaving work of teaching doctors how to handle complications associated with childbirth.
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