PBS News Hour

High infant and maternal mortality rates plague the country of Guatemala. Women start having children in their teens and often continue into their forties. Health experts speak to Ray Suarez about the cultural and logistical obstacles tied to the use of birth control as a means of family planning. Some of the most prominent impediments to using birth control are cultural. Both the Catholic and Protestant Evangelical Churches discourage the practice and birth control also goes against other deeply engrained customs and beliefs of the Guatemalan people.