Today "more than 536,000 women die during pregnancy and childbirth every year. That is one every minute, or 10 million per generation."2 This toll has remained almost unchanged since 1987. This last piece of information points to the real tragedy of maternal mortality: it is a poor women’s issue.3 Maternal mortality is thus not only a question of underdevelopment but of social inequity and injustice—both between and within countries. It is also a question of lack o political will, and of little advancement in terms of women’s health and human rights. What these data blatantly conveys is that we have either not done enough, or that we have been doing it wrong. It is redundant to say, then, that we are far from reaching MDG5, and thus the rest of the Millennium commitments.