Jezebel: Mozambique

Life-Saving Drug Gets Entangled In Abortion Politics

Irin Carmon — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:55:12 EDT

Remember that Idaho pharmacist that refused to dispense an anti-uterine bleeding drug until she found out whether or not the woman had an abortion? The same battle is being waged daily around the world, only with access to misoprostol. More »

Presidential Ambitions

Anna Holmes — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:10:00 EDT

[Maputo, Mozambique; September 13. Image via Getty]

Barack Obama, Good For Us Ladies And Easy On The Eyes

Megan Carpentier — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:40:00 EDT

Not that it's surprising, but the 43 economists of the Economists' Policy Group on Women's Issues graded John McCain and Barack Obama on 10 issues of importance to women and Obama came out ahead. McCain got an "F" because the group was concerned that his positions would do harm to women. [US News & World Report]
They probably didn't take into account, though, that the highest paid person on McCain's staff in October was a woman. She's, um, the woman that does Sarah Palin's make-up, and she got $22,800 for the first two weeks of work. [Huffington Post]
Once upon a time before Ahmadenijad or Chavez came to power, McCain was casting votes in Congress to get the Reagan administration to sit down with an Mozambique group designated as a terrorist organization without preconditions. [Huffington Post]
And long before Obama met Bill Ayers, McCain was palling around with Chilean dictator and human rights violator extraordinaire Augusto Pinochet and his pals. [Huffington Post]

Midwife Nurses In Mozambique Fight Maternal Mortality

Anna Holmes — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:00:00 EDT

In an Op-Ed on the NY Times' website today, missionary and doctor Sue Malkin writes about the staggering maternal mortality rates in Malawi. Malkin explains that part of the problem in getting care to expectant Malawian women is that they're not always empowered to make decisions about their own well-being, which leads to delays. Her point was echoed in a documentary that aired last night on PBS: Birth of a Surgeon follows Emilia Cubane, a young woman in Mozambique learning to become a surgical (as in C-sections) midwife. In the clip above, Emilia helps a laboring young woman who wants to be sterilized but doesn't have her husband's permission. More »