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To: tejek who wrote (213528)	12/19/2004 2:39:41 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (1) of 1577846

A year-long examination by The Washington Post of death-record data in states across the country documents the killings of 1,367 pregnant women and new mothers since 1990. This is only part of the national toll, because no reliable system is in place to track such cases. Largely invisible little has been said about the larger convergence of pregnancy and homicide: how often it happens, why, and whether it is a fluke or a social syndrome. In the Washington region alone, at least three pregnant women have been killed in the past seven weeks Police agencies across the country do not regularly ask about maternal status when they investigate homicides. 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." The FBI collects comprehensive homicide statistics but does not look at pregnancy. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracks maternal health but has no uniform way of monitoring maternal killings. "The system is flawed," Krulewitch said. story.news.yahoo.com

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