Every Minute Counts: Improve Maternal Health (MDG #5 / EngenderHealth) - 2008

[Dekortage]

Actually you DO have to worry about "overcrowding" in many places. And having less people DOES take away problems. If a women have fewer children (say, 3 instead of 6), then infant mortality goes down, child mortality goes down, maternal mortality goes down -- significantly. The long-term economic impact of having too many kids is very apparent, as well: more mouths to feed means fewer opportunities for getting out of poverty, which means the kids will be starting at the bottom too.

[anon540]

So this deal with "killing babies is good for your health" is bullshit. I'm glad someone finally brought that out.

[LordSlag]

Every pregnancy planned and wanted? SHIT, that doesn't happen in Britain or the United States of Jesus. Let's put our own affairs in order first, shall we?

[PivotMasterX4]

weve got enough money for weapons and tanks

SO WHY THE HELL NOT FOR FOOD FOR THE POOR COUNTRIES.

[anon540]

As far back as we have recorded history poverty ALWAYS has a reason. In this case there are two things that need to be fixed;

A; Stop feeding all the food to rats, and

B; Get up off your ass and do some work.

"Make the rich people work twice as hard to feed the people who won't" has never worked. There's an old saying.

Give a man a fish:

[Dekortage]

I fully agree with the "give a man a fish" principle (which is actually what EngenderHealth does for reproductive health, if you read through their web site) but I think you have missed the "exploitation of the poor" aspect of poverty, both locally and globally. This is not about people not working hard; it's about people not having options.

[Joey198687Heller]

let's just worrie about the US for a change.

[jetrpg22]

No there is a real world out there Anniebh.

See the earth is only so big 510,065,600 km2 surface area (including the water) So no you can not keep having babies forever. And only so much of it can grow food.

Hunger in industrialized societies occur, however, it is do to parents not feeding their children because they are to lazy to.(The gov. will feed your kids).

Poverty occurs (lets just say it)in advanced societies, why because someone will always be on the bottom, its usually the lazy ones.

[khnulamei]

landfill??? besides, old people die all the timr, giving the space to newborns. lazy ones should be taught by government ang guided not erradicated. otherwise there is no real growth.

[dielozer]

noob

[towshow]

QUIT HAVING BABIES!

[freeSATELLITETVonPC]

WOW, this is so nice! Keep up the good work..

[bob4oto1]

Lol isna't global warming a problem if there are more people more global warming to ?

[ceeweezey]

Stop giving away money 4 lottery tickets and donate to sick people!

[jetrpg22]

Is this a joke?

Humanity has had a problem for 10,000+ or - years. I am so happy that this group has finally pointed this out.

Its natural for this to happen, and this is so dumb. It like an ad saying watch out cars kill save the people in the US because they have so many, its killing a lot of them you know. (well at least this kinda makes sense and is not a natural part of life).

[Tabascho]

What a great goal! I will help as soon as I have money to spare -starving college student-

[314spartan91]

Thank you for spreading the word and keep up the amazing work.

[ferrariguy101]

Do you really think your petty little donation scheme is working? Sure, I could donate some money to help save a child, that will only grow up in obscene poverty... We need to solve this problem at the root, and prevent people with disease/ poverty from having kids in the first place! My heart goes to those living in poverty, but the longer we continue this, the longer the problem will persist! We need to implement something like the manhattan project, for a safe and secure mean of lasting birth

[SQJ9F]

One of the most important times to offer family planning (contraception) is at the time of birth. The new mother has the opportunity to choose when or if she will have another child. Also, when women are receiving obstetric care that gives them a chance to find out about contraception. Women also have more trust in an organization that offers them a range of health care rather than only pushing sterilization or other contraceptive methods. That is why Engenderhealth is an effective donation.

[LiliumLoveless]

This is a really positive thing they're doing. So many people forget about people in poor and/or remote countries.

[ShleeJay]

dieing to reproduce...it's pretty crazy.