Delivering the International Museum of Women Petition to the United Nations

All we asked was for 10,000 signatures and you guys blew us away.  Right along with Brigid McConville of the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood, Helene Gayle of CARE, Christy Turlington Burns and the Every Mother Counts team 15,800 of you signed the pledge, telling our leaders that you believe all women have a right to safe pregnancy and birth. 

You asked our government to honor its Millennium Development Goal commitment to advance maternal health by 2015.  You insisted that all women have access to reproductive healthcare and that our governments work together to reduce needless maternal deaths.  You joined a global movement and last night, on behalf of the International Museum of Women and all the women of the world, we delivered our petition to Dr. Robert Orr, United Nations Assistant Secretary General for Policy Coordination and Strategic Planning. 15,800 of us said it together, loud and clear:  Global maternal health – Bring it.