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It was such a pleasure to see the daily victories of our Canadian women athletes. But their glorious success stands in stark contrast to the plight of women elsewhere. While a young woman in Canada can set her sights on the chance of winning Olympic gold, a young woman in Niger faces a one in seven chance that she will die during pregnancy or childbirth. Maternal mortality rates in the developing world remain persistently high—more than 100 times as high as in the developed world—due to lack of basic health care.
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Time to help women in poorest parts of world
It was such a pleasure to see the daily victories of our Canadian women athletes. But their glorious success stands in stark contrast to the plight of women elsewhere. While a young woman in Canada can set her sights on the chance of winning Olympic gold, a young woman in Niger faces a one in seven chance that she will die during pregnancy or childbirth. Maternal mortality rates in the developing world remain persistently high—more than 100 times as high as in the developed world—due to lack of basic health care.
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