Thank you very much, Chair.
The 2005 World Health Organization report Make Every Mother and Child Count says that the leading cause of maternal death is hemorrhaging, bleeding. But it also says that the second leading cause of maternal death is unsafe abortion. I'm surprised that some say here that it's not part of what we're talking about today, but the second leading cause is very important.
My question is a policy one. The government claims to be making maternal health a key priority in the G8 meeting, and CIDA says that it seeks to improve sexual and reproductive health and rights and reduce maternal morbidity and mortality. Does it not make sense for our government and CIDA to try to reduce or eliminate the second leading cause of maternal mortality in developing countries, that being unsafe abortions?