Kamilla wrote:
>
>Nice try, Tim. But pregnancy isn't inherently risky - it may well be for
>some but clearly is not so for all. It also confers certain
>protections, especially if a woman has her first child before the age of
>30.
This is written from a modern perspective where we have all sorts of medical
support. In the past, things were much more difficult.
" Life has always been severe in this region. Studies of
mummified human remains from several different early
cultures, ranging from 1300 B.C. to A.D. 1400, show that
fifteen percent of the women had died in childbirth or
immediately post-partum." Christopher Wills, The Children of Prometheus,
(Reading, Mass: Perseus Books, 1998), p. 63-64
Even today it is claimed that 600,000 women each year die in childbirth
http://www.unicef.org/information/
And another Reuters report says 1 million die each year:
"In Somalia, he said, 1 of every 7 women dies in childbirth;
in the Ivory Coast it is 1 of every 14, in Bolivia 1 out of
every 26 women and in Morocco 1 out of every 33. In comparison,
1 of every 3,500 women dies in childbirth in the United States
and in Israel the figure is 1 out of every 4,000. "
http://csf.colorado.edu/femisa/mar97/0004.html
glenn
see http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/dmd.htm
for lots of creation/evolution information
anthropology/geology/paleontology/theology\
personal stories of struggle
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