No Mother's Day? Every Mother Counts Founder Christy Turlington Burns on Raising Awareness for Childbirth Complications
Every Mother Counts Staff
May 11, 2012
Orginally posted on CNN.com
While mothers everywhere will be celebrated on Sunday for Mothers Day, model and activist Christy Turlington Burns is saying "No Mothers Day." She's advising no flowers, no chocolates, no loving text messages, or phone calls to mom: Absolutely nothing. She says the is a message. She wants to recognize the 1000 women a day who die of complications from childbirth, and says most are preventable.
Christy Turlington Burns talks with Soledad this morning about her "No Mother's Day" initiative.
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