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More than half of Bihar's 82 million people live below the poverty line, compared with about 40 percent for the rest of India; both the infant-mortality rate and - maternal-mortality rate are higher than the national average; and some 70 percent of the state's inhabited areas are not linked by motorable roads.
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Another cite from "When Abortion Was a Crime": The year after abortion was legalized in New York State, the maternal-mortality rate there dropped by 45 percent.
Archive 2009-06-01 Doctor Science 2009
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Another cite from "When Abortion Was a Crime": The year after abortion was legalized in New York State, the maternal-mortality rate there dropped by 45 percent.
Abortion and quickening Doctor Science 2009
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More health workers and better clinics, which could save millions of lives, would be the easiest response to the maternal-mortality crisis.
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Rwanda has the seventh-highest maternal-mortality rate in the world, says a 2005 report by the World Health Organization; an estimated 1,300 women die for every 100,000 live births.
Wired Campus 2010
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The Amnesty report comes on the heels of an investigation in California that found maternal deaths have tripled there in recent years as well as a maternal-mortality alert issued in January by the Joint Commission, a group that accredits hospitals and other medical organizations, which noted that common preventable errors included failure to control blood pressure in hypertensive women and failure to pay attention to vital signs following c-sections.
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Rwanda has the seventh-highest maternal-mortality rate in the world, says a 2005 report by the World Health Organization; an estimated 1,300 women die for every 100,000 live births.
Wired Campus 2010
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More health workers and better clinics, which could save millions of lives, would be the easiest response to the maternal-mortality crisis.
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Her experience there led her to a program from which she could apply her obstetrics training to Rwanda's maternal-mortality problems.
Wired Campus 2010
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Her experience there led her to a program from which she could apply her obstetrics training to Rwanda's maternal-mortality problems.
Wired Campus 2010
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