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By Ben-Peter Terpstra, published 5/10/2007History wars: our students are encouraged to marinate in the West’s sin.
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Later, when Keating did a sweet-heart deal with a Catholic Independent member from Tasmania, the condition being that no birth-control teaching nor birth-control methods be sent to third-world countries, not one feminist group spoke out. Keating was their darling. This was a terrible betrayal of what feminism was supposed to represent.
The result was that maternal mortality, obstetric fistula, and still-births rocketed in these countries; especially among child wives.
From the Fistula Foundation.
“Less than 6 in 10 women in developing countries give birth with any trained professional, such as a midwife or a doctor. In Ethiopia, only 1 in 10 women have a trained attendant. When complications arise, as they do in approximately 15% of all births, there is no one available to treat the woman, leading to disabling injuries like fistula, and even death.”
http://www.fistulafoundation.org/aboutfistula/faqs.html
An obstetric fistula is a rupture in the birth canal, the result of prolonged labour, leaving girls/women with chronic bowel and bladder incontinence; they are isolated from their villages; even hospitals will turn them away. Invariably the baby is stillborn.