Dear Learned Colleague,

This month, as the world scrutinizes how the World Health Organization responded to the Covid-19 crisis, we bring you the story of a forgotten but even deadlier global tragedy—2.6 million stillbirths every year.

This month's issue of Definitions shows the way in which one UN human rights committee, the one responsible for helping nations end these deaths, instead erased stillbirths and replaced it with abortion advocacy.

Sincerely,

Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D.
Editor

Every day around the world, 800 women and 7,000 children die in childbirth.  This is tragic, and rightfully their deaths have garnered attention at the highest levels. Yet 7,100 more children are stillborn every day to devastated parents, but they have been erased from the international agenda. This brief paper examines one of the United Nations entities responsible. Read More >>>