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Homicide is a leading cause of pregnancy-associated injury deaths!

Most of the murdered women, 56 percent, were shot to death while the rest were either stabbed or strangled.

Black women are especially vulnerable to being killed while pregnant, the team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found.

Jeani Chang and colleagues wrote in an issue of the American Journal of Public Health. That they investigated the deaths of women who died while pregnant or within a year of being pregnant between 1991 and 1999 and found 1,993 that were caused by injury, compared with 4,200 that were directly related to pregnancy complications. Of the injury-related deaths, 617 or 31 percent were ruled homicide, making murder the second most common cause of injury-related death for pregnant women after car accidents. The homicide rate for pregnant black women was more than triple that for white women.

Black women and women under age 20 were at highest risk of being murdered during or after pregnancy, according to the study.
Black women had a maternal homicide risk about seven times that of white women, and black women ages 25 to 29 are about 11 times as likely as white women in that age group to be killed when pregnant or in the year following childbirth.
The researchers also found that married women and women who had prenatal care during pregnancy were less likely to be murdered during pregnancy or the year following than unmarried women or women who did not access prenatal care, respectively.
The researchers recommended that state and local health officials take “ambitious steps” to more accurately track the number of maternal homicides, including combining information from autopsy records, police reports, and birth and death records to gain a better understanding of the magnitude of the issue and who is affected, according to the Post.
The study also said that it is “important but difficult to assess” whether women are generally at an increased risk for homicide during pregnancy and the year following childbirth because homicide is the leading cause of death among black women and young women, regardless of pregnancy.

Makes you think huh?

“When we think of all the other things that cause women to die during pregnancy, such as infection or hemorrhaging, the fact that homicide far outweighs those things tells you it’s a significant problem,” said Phyllis Sharps, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University’s school of nursing who researches violence against women.