Reply #110: Source inside. And it's a matter of perspective. [View All]

The source is the original study that concluded murder as being the leading cause of death. While murders outnumber any one pregnancy-related complication, the total complex of possible complications still out numbers the risk of murder. Here's an article talking about that aspect:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/LegalCenter/story?id=522184&page=1

Look at it this way. Extrapolating from the MD study to the rest of the country, we're talking about a total rate of around 530 pregnant women being murdered per year. That's about 0.000176 murders for every pregnancy. And that's one of the higher rates--if you extrapolate from the study in New York years earlier, it becomes more like 300 per year. So while it's not irrelevant, it also has to be taken into perspective that we live in a country of 300,000,000 people, and some of them are invariably going to behave violently.