astonishing

This article reports that homocide is the 2nd greatest cause of death of pregnant women. It is the cause in 31% of deaths of pregnant women. Pregnancy-related complications are first. I had heard (on Oprah) before that homocide is first. Whatever. It's probably pretty close for first and second since car accidents and suicide are pretty high up for non-pregnant women.

I really wish it became standard practice to report absolute risk in such articles. Michael Evans wrote an article about that in the Globe not that long ago. I can't link to it because the Globe's website is very miserly about letting you read the Globe online without registering or paying or something.