News from Washington, DC. The Women Deliver conference was a great success, thanks to the extraordinary efforts of one woman, Jill Sheffield, and her team. It captured the political moment for maternal, newborn, and child health. A dilemma though. Some who claim visible leadership in global health-Ban Ki-Moon and Melinda Gates, for example-failed to speak up for 20 million women who each year face unsafe abortions. These women are the marginalised of the marginalised. Canada is backing maternal and child health at the G8 this month. But the Canadian Government has also excluded abortion from its agenda. I had an opportunity to put the abortion question to Canada's Minister of International Cooperation, Beverley Oda.
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