----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Perelman To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 11:49 AM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] pregnancy and murder
is this actually true?
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:29:02PM -0800, joanna bujes wrote:
> About 1/3 of deaths that occur during pregnancy are due to homicide (in
> U.S.).
>
> http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/AA3D91D3-7127-4AD0-AD57-754EFE73038D.htm
>
> Joanna
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I *hate* digging through mortality statistics... I see 20%.
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/lukas200501120730.asp
But how do we know that homicide actually is the leading cause of death among pregnant women? The Washington Post recently ran a three-part series exploring the problem of the murder of pregnant women and cited a study conducted in Maryland that was published by The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in 2001 that appears to be the source of the information. Isabelle Horon and Diana Cheng, authors of the Maryland study, concluded that "A pregnant or recently pregnant woman is more likely to be the victim of homicide than to die of any other cause." Among 247 women in Maryland between 1993 and 1998 who died while pregnant or within a year of having been pregnant, 50 died of homicide. The next greatest killers were cardiovascular disorders (48), embolisms (21), accidents (18), and hemorrhage (17).
The Study: http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/285/11/1455
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