The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding

China was probably the worst place in the world to grow up female 100 years ago. There was foot binding, female infanticide, concubinage, and child marriage, and now it's one of the better places. So I really do feel that we're on the right side of history here.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible.

Our national leaders tend to try to protect the national interest as they see it. They may screw up in that, but they at least see that as their role. In contrast, where issues of our national values are involved, which covers pretty much any humanitarian issue, they pretty much drop the ball.

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.