1.   Efforts to reduce maternal deaths in many developing countries have largely failed.

2.   Family-planning services can also help reduce maternal deaths due to pregnancy-related complications.

3.   In Latin America, unsafe abortions cause nearly half of all maternal deaths, a quarter of these to teenage girls.

4.   Neglect of the health and nutrition of girls and women and high rates of maternal death in childbirth helped give males a survival edge.

5.   Nor has he had a maternal death.

6.   One-third of maternal deaths in Kenya are due to unsafe abortions, a study by a nonprofit group indicates.

7.   The disparity in the number of maternal deaths from country to country is staggering.

8.   The FDA acknowledges that the reports do not distinguish between maternal death and miscarriage.

9.   The Population Action survey found, for example, that more than half of maternal deaths were due to unsafe abortions.

10.   The use of birth assistants has very likely accounted for the relatively low rate of maternal deaths and stillbirths seen historically in normal deliveries.