"More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they
were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century. More
girls are killed in this routine gendercide in any one decade than
people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the 20th century. The
equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labor each day... life
time risk of maternal death is 1,000x higher in a poor country than in
the west. That should be an international scandal."
-Nicholas D.
Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, Half The Sky
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