The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

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.

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

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction

There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen.

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.