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tazzygirl -> RE: Women's Rights! (3/19/2010 8:48:16 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Elisabella
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Murder is the leading cause of death among pregnant women. This is a medical fact.
Oh God not this tired old statistic again.
First of all, no it's not. The leading cause of death among pregnant women is complications due to pregnancy. Murder comes in third, behind pregnancy complications and automobile accidents.
And second of all, you really have to look at it in context - the leading cause of death in women between the ages of 14-45ish, within a 9 month span of their lives, when they're making sure to be extra concerned about their health, and when they're otherwise healthy enough to conceive...it would be either murder, auto accidents, or suicide, which coincidentally comes in fourth.
Though you really have to love that this article is titled "Homicide One of Leading Causes of Injury Related Death Among Pregnant Women" even though it comes in third.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/20316.php
“Homicide is a leading cause of pregnancy-associated injury deaths,” Jeani Chang and colleagues wrote in the latest issue of the American Journal of Public Health. 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, the researchers said.
Most of the murdered women, 56 percent, were shot to death while the rest were either stabbed or strangled. On Tuesday, a Texas man was charged with murdering his pregnant lover and her 7-year-old son after he led police to a makeshift grave. Stephen Barbee, 37, told police he murdered Lisa Underwood, 34, and her son Jayden because she was pregnant with his child and wanted him to leave his wife for her, according to court documents quoted by the Dallas Morning News.
A second report suggests that pregnancy-related deaths may be underreported. Isabelle Horon of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene collected data on maternal deaths from death certificates and other records.
http://www.jrrobertssecurity.com/security-news/security-crime-news0043.htm
They are indeed underreported. The CDC has a new reporting system since the old one was extremely limited and did not give adequate attention to the numerous causes of pregnancy related deaths.
Homicide still a leading cause of death among pregnant and postpartum women Homicide is a leading injury-related cause of death among pregnant and postpartum women, second only to motor-vehicle accidents, according to a review of death certificates for U.S. women.
The study found that for every 100,000 live births in the United States from 1991-1999, at least two women were homicide victims during pregnancy or within one year of being pregnant. Being black, under age 20 and receiving late or no prenatal care increased a woman’s chance of being a homicide victim while pregnant. And for 57 percent of pregnant homicide victims, the gun was their assailant’s weapon of choice, followed by 17 percent of assailants who cut or stab victims.
Using a new CDC surveillance system called the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS), timely data can be better captured about the scope and nature of pregnancy-related deaths. NVDRS can capture information about pregnancy status, victim-perpetrator relationship and the presence of an intimate partner. This information makes it an important information tool to better understand the scope and nature of pregnancy-associated violent deaths. [From: “Homicide: a Leading Cause of Injury and Deaths Among Pregnant and Postpartum Women in the United States, 1991-1999.” Contact: Office of Communication, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, 770-488-5131.]
http://www.apha.org/about/news/ajphreleases/2005/March+2005+AJPH+Press+Release.htm
Oddly enough.. and it comes as no surprise to me.. not every state has adopted this new reporting process. So to state emphatically that ANY cause is the leading cause is a tad bit misleading... simply because we dont know based upon the limited information we have.
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