he wanted to take her home," he said.

What is Australia's policy on asylum seekers?

Many asylum seekers have tried to reach Australia on boats from Indonesia, often paying large sums to people smugglers. Hundreds have died. In 2013, the government introduced tough new policies to "stop the boats".

Military vessels patrol Australian waters and intercept migrant boats, often towing them back to Indonesia. This and other policies have significantly curbed the number of boat journeys.

Hundreds of asylum seekers who reached Australian shores years ago are held in offshore processing centres, which rights groups say expose them to widespread psychological harm.

But the country has taken 656 refugees per 100,000 people through UN refugee agency resettlement schemes , more than twice as many as the United States.the mother.

In 1923, Mary Breckinridge started the Frontier Nursing Service in rural Appalachia. At that time, nine women died for every 1,000 births in the U.S.—a rate 100 times higher than we see today. And in these deep hollows, where people were cut off from medical care, the risk for pregnant women was even greater. Breckinridge changed all that when her horseback midwives began riding out into mountain snowstorms to deliver babies by candlelight.

Within a decade, the astonishing impact of that care was apparent. (Breckinridge recruited Louis Dublin, vice president and statistician at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com pany, to do the numbers; the results were published in 1932.) The women the Frontier Nursing Service cared for, who were desperately poor and usually gave birth at home, were