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"The tragedy is that the causes of maternal deaths are preventable. The greater tragedy is that these deaths are taken for granted, even though they occur daily, the whole year round."

- Suneeta Mukherjee, representative to the Philippines, United Nations Population Fund

"Every pregnancy depletes a woman, since all the raw material of the fetus, like the blood and the calcium, comes from the mother�. And very rarely can health bounce back after pregnancy, especially if she is poor."

-DR. JUNICE MELGAR, executive director, Linangan ng Kababaihan (LIKHAAN)

"Follow-up checkup of postpartum patients is usually done by our midwives who do not have any training in [postpartum depression]."

-DR .TERESITA CUEVA, primary-health-care provider, San Fernando,

La Union, on the lack of training to detect postpartum depression

"What I'm suggesting is we need to get away from these endless disputes of fetal rights versus maternal rights. A better way for us to proceed as doctors throughout the world is how do we balance obligations in different circumstances?"

-DR. FRANK CHERVENAK, director of maternal and fetal medicine, New York

Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York

"I think that modern scientific methods are proving what religion used to teach us 2,000 years ago. And more than ever, religious beliefs do meet scientific results. The fetus is an individual from conception."

-DR. ASIM KURJAK, professor in obstetrics and gynecology, University of Zagreb, Croatia

"We must move away from the idea that there's a global band aid that can make up for the deficiencies of national systems."

-MICHAEL RYAN, director of epidemic alert and response, World Health Organization

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