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From: Ilaine12/18/2004 8:07:26 PM
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>>Many New or Expectant Mothers Die Violent Deaths

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Five years ago in Maryland, state health researchers Isabelle Horon and Diana Cheng set out to study maternal deaths, using sophisticated methods to spot dozens of overlooked cases in their state. They assumed they would find more deaths from medical complications than the state's statistics showed. The last thing they expected was murder.

But in their study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2001, they wrote that in Maryland, "a pregnant or recently pregnant woman is more likely to be a victim of homicide than to die of any other cause."
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washingtonpost.com

Fascinating story. Registration required, but I've been registered for years, and they don't send intrusive emails.
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