“We have shouted it out for years, but no one is really paying attention,” one expert said.
who are not pregnant, the recently released Obstetrics & Gynecology journal study concludes.
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.
Though it is well understood by victims of domestic violence, the danger that pregnant people face — often from their partners — receives little public notice. According to the study, homicide rates were particularly high among pregnant women 24 and younger, and for pregnant Black women, who were three times more at risk than their white counterparts. That mirrors the overall risk of dying during pregnancy from all causes, including obstetric ones, which is about 2.5 times higher for Black people, pointing to an overall lack of access to healthcare and, in turn, screening for domestic violence.
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