The Less Apparent Effects of Conflict

"It's a campaign to drain the country," said Aviad Najeed, a surgeon at al-Jarrah. "A very, very well-organized one. We don't know who's behind it."

Iraq's Woes Are Adding Major Risks to Childbirth

Doctors being kidnapped and killed, women afraid to go to the hospital in the middle of the night because of curfews, fetal monitors and ultrasound machinery and technology suddenly replaced with "a trumpetlike device held over the womb..."

While the world hears statistics of those slain in the Iraqi strife, it is necessary to realize there is a silent war against the voiceless and the women struggling to give them life.