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A woman in Houston who showed an ultrasound to her boyfriend, a mother of five who was carrying a sixth child, and a pregnant woman coming home from a baby shower were all recent victims of homicide, a top cause of death for pregnant people in the US.
Pregnant people are more than twice as likely to be murdered during pregnancy and immediately after giving birth than to die from any other cause, according to a nationwide death certificate study. Homicide far exceeds obstetric causes of death during pregnancy, such as hemorrhage, hypertension, or infection.
Nationwide, there were around 10,000 homicides reported last year, according to FBI statistics, and only 1 in 5 victims were female. But pregnant women face a risk of being murdered 16% higher than women the same age who are not pregnant, the recently released Obstetrics & Gynecology journal study concludes. (The paper focused on people identified as female based on their death certificate.)
This new nationwide analysis was enabled by a change in how death certificates are recorded. As of 2017, certificates in all states now have a checkbox for pregnancy.
Investigators looked at all deaths among women ages 10 to 44 held in a federal database from 2018 and 2019. They found 273 homicides of pregnant women, which make up almost 6% of all murdered women in the US. Most of them were shot at home; guns were involved in 7 out of 10 such homicides, an increase from past decades.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/pregnant-murder-statistics-cause-of-death
The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)It's awful to see the practice continuing.
underpants
(182,788 posts)Wow.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)Wow indeed 😭
Retired Engineer Bob
(759 posts)Our wonderful guns make so much easier.
Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)The body, the life, of a woman is not worth much in this culture.
cinematicdiversions
(1,969 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Another depressing statistic to add to add to an already depressing holiday.