Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.

We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that we are smarter, not that we're harder working, not that we're more virtuous - it's that we're luckier.

Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake.

If only women are talking about women's rights, then the issue has failed from the start. If you think about the Holocaust, that wasn't just a Jewish issue. Civil rights weren't just a black issue.

The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.

Guilt-tripping people does not work; they tend to be turned off.

It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.