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An infant waits with her mother for an appointment at a governement clinic in San Juan de Lurigancho, a shantytown on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, June 5, 2003. Women's advocates say Health Minister Fernando Carbone and Prime Minister Luis Solari are pushing their conservative Roman Catholic philosophy by promoting motherhood and cutting off free contraceptives and birth-control information to the poor. The government denies the accusations and pointsto its efforts to make pregnancy safer. Among improvements are better trained staffs, increased prenatal visits, improved birthing programs and free health care for women and children. "These are all great things, but if the government is going to encourage people to have babies then it must provide them with the necessary resources to feed, clothe and educate those babies," said Maria Suyon de La Cruz, a health care worker at the clinic. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Martin Mejia)