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"Complications from pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death in Ethiopian women aged 15 to 19."

Check out this interesting coverage by the BBC on various women's experiences with child birth/rearing. The story follows women throughout the world. Though, the most recent quotations from the Ethiopian woman and the British woman sum things up pretty accurately.

British woman: "I love being a mum."

Ethiopian woman: "We have no running water."