… Homicidal injury is a leading cause of death among pregnant women in the United States.
We review 11 years of homicides in New York City in which the victim was pregnant at the …

… Evidence suggests that a woman who is pregnant may have an increased risk of becoming
a victim of homicide [7] when compared to non-pregnant women. Studies reporting homicide …

… women killed by partners around pregnancy between 2008 and 2019.2 With numbers of
firearm homicides … the US,9 gun violence has become a health emergency for pregnant women. …

… homicide approximate the rate we found in our study of pregnancy-associated homicide …
Our current study shows a greater than fivefold higher pregnancy-associated homicide ratio …

… of homicide among pregnant and/or postpartum women in … homicide may account for a
greater proportion of the deaths among pregnant/postpartum women than among other women of …

… homicides involving pregnant and postpartum women are similar to national statistics 1 on
homicide among all women of reproductive age (regardless of whether they are pregnant or …

… We hypothesized that pregnancy-associated homicide would exceed rates of … pregnancy
and the postpartum period are times when girls and women are at increased risk of homicide. …

… the observed rates suggest a decreased risk of homicide for older pregnant women 30–49
years compared with nonpregnant and nonpostpartum women (Breslow-Day χ 2 7.01, P<.01, …

… tabulated in this review, the actual number of pregnant women killed at the hands of their
intimate partners is not completely known, but it is reasonable to assume that it is the majority ( …

… also showed that pregnant women have an 11% higher risk of homicide than do non-pregnant
women, 19 and the UK confidential enquiry data showed that 12% of the women had …