| Islam, Women and Feminism | |
| 27 Jul 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Every Mother Counts | |
By Christy Turlington Burns and Kaosar Afsana
It is very late at night in early 2001. Fifteen year old Mitali lies writhing in pain in the corner of a dingy room deep within one of Dhaka's overcrowded slums. She is several hours into labour. Her adolescent body, emaciated from chronic malnourishment, is not the optimal environment to sufficiently host or deliver a baby.
Alone in the tiny room she shares with her husband, unattended by family let alone a skilled attendant, Mitali finally gives birth -- to a stillborn infant/fetus? She herself narrowly escapes death, only to be subjected to three more pregnancies over the next ten years and the loss of yet another child to pneumonia.
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Moderate Islamist here
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