In Silence

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In Silence

Susan Meiselas

Each year half a million women around the world die in childbirth. Twenty percent of those deaths are in India. Most of the deaths are preventable with access to proper healthcare.

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I have had a heart for the the down trodden Indian women for as long as I can remember. Susan Meiselas has captured the trauma and anguish of an unnecessary circumstance. Bleeding to death from childbirth should never happen in this day and age. There is no excuse for the lack of medical care for pregnancy and childbirth. Ms. Meiselas' essay is magnificant in how she shows the abuse of women in that system. I hope it gets to the right people who can make a change for them. Thank you for doing it; I know it must have been very difficult.
Very moving. Triggering a lot of my own emotions. I had an undiscovered bleed after giving birth and noticed it myself. Had I not woken up in pool of blood, the hospital staff would have just let me die. Lost 3 pints of blood, before it stopped. It also happens in the "developed world" due to carelessness or human error. Makes me very angry, that preventable death occur and women in India have to go through this.
Nice Work. They dont print this the newspapers.
Life is very hard in the world...where is GOD? I hope that the gate keepers will go into a jail!
The human insensibility is around the world, I ove Photography and I hope this kind of works contribute to make the change, to make the human consciousness, the goberments consciousness see at those needed people and comunities. I Think is not dificult, everything is posible when we want, everything could change, except death.

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