Thank you.

As an American, Americans have a habit of taking anything around pregnancy that mentions the word "life" to mean a pro-life/anti-choice stance, even if the context is from regions of the world without such a distinction. The response varies by audience, but the response on HN to anything approaching pro-life/anti-choice is usually downvotes.

There's a chance that some downvoters simply saw a third-world country being called "violent" and immediately mentally labeled the comment as being hateful or somehow Trumpian, despite this clearly not being the case.

I believe has was probably being downvoted because OP kinda stretched the point of life x death to make a statement about other issue that has absolutely nothing to do with the medical prowess of the current posting.

I totally understand him tho, being from South America as well, allow me to reiterate: violence is rampant. more than ever. And we wish things would just get better down here, but the situation imho is getting worse.

I congratulate the professionals involved in this and I feel kinda 'proud' even tho it's not my feat. you go humanity!