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...seemed before dawn one Sunday in August in Kora Olia, a remote village in Afghanistan's northeastern province of Badakhshan, where maternal mortality is about four times the country's already high rate. Nine months pregnant, Harakatmo, 19, began bleeding heavily. Her husband and mother-in-law were concerned, but the local doctor was far away, and expensive, so they waited. When Harakatmo was still bleeding the next morning, they sent a horseman to fetch a village health worker, but Harakatmo's bleeding continued. Panicked, her husband strapped her to a makeshift stretcher and carried her down the steep track...
...some, that hope has come too late. A week after Conteh's death, her relatives gathered to name her baby girl after the dead mother. Weeping, Conteh's parents and her boyfriend hugged and kissed the infant, a bittersweet reminder of their loss. They are not alone. In the time it has taken to read this story, about 20 more women have died in childbirth...
...policy on Iraq--my son was killed there--I respect Sarah Palin for her decision to keep her Down-syndrome baby [Sept. 15]. I am the father of a 28-year-old Down-syndrome daughter, whom I've cared for almost single-handedly since the death of her mother 16 years ago. My daughter has been a source of joy and hope in the midst of family setbacks. Even if Palin does not win the election, she at least has put a new face on Down syndrome. I thank her for that. Joseph P. Nolan, WATERBURY, CONN...
...extreme depths that McCracken plumbs, language itself breaks down. "Was I a mother?" she asks herself, and after the baby's death but before its birth, "Was I pregnant? There should be a different word for it, for someone who hasn't yet delivered a dead child." But McCracken's sense of humor doesn't fail; it merely turns an inky black. An intern assigned to check her cervix "rummaged around in the manner of an unhappy wife looking for a wedding ring in a garbage disposal." When McCracken and her husband leave the hospital after the disaster, a black...
...tale begins in the town of Songarh, where factory owner Amulya rescues Mukunda, the illegitimate baby of an employee's son, and puts him in an orphanage, taking on the responsibility for the boy's upkeep. Meanwhile, Nirmal, Amulya's younger son, legitimately fathers a daughter, Bakul, whose mother dies during childbirth. Mukunda is later brought home from the orphanage to work as a houseboy, and he and Bakul become close childhood companions. The family naturally disapproves and separates them at adolescence, but they reunite in adulthood and become lovers. By that time, everybody's lives have changed irreversibly...