UN Finally Accepts New and Much Lower Estimates of Global Maternal Deaths

UN Finally Accepts New and Much Lower Estimates of Global Maternal Deaths � Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute: UN leadership capitulated on key maternal health figures last week, conceding pregnancy-related deaths have fallen faster than recently reported. A new report abandons statistics fiercely defended just months ago. In April, an independent research team showed that UN leaders had for years inflated the number of maternal deaths to a half-million worldwide.