Suicide also rates as a higher cause of death than homicide. In fact good statistics show that being pregnant actually protects women from homicide. Unfortunately the study too often used was rigged by, for example, including deaths by homicide for up to 12 months after birth.
Laci Peterson is a poor choice as an example of this. Only a few women every year are killed for the fetus - there is a list on http://another9912.googlepages.com/fetalandnewbornabductions of cases currently known. Most are like Martha Moreno, unmarried, young, minority, killed by Gilbert Cano, the father of the baby and blown off by the media and thus by the courts. Where was the outcry for her? Where was her wall to wall TV coverage? She was loved - but not by many, sadly. And so Cano will be out in a few years and Martha just a memory.
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Suicide also rates as a higher cause of death than homicide. In fact good statistics show that being pregnant actually protects women from homicide. Unfortunately the study too often used was rigged by, for example, including deaths by homicide for up to 12 months after birth.
Laci Peterson is a poor choice as an example of this. Only a few women every year are killed for the fetus - there is a list on http://another9912.googlepages.com/fetalandnewbornabductions of cases currently known. Most are like Martha Moreno, unmarried, young, minority, killed by Gilbert Cano, the father of the baby and blown off by the media and thus by the courts. Where was the outcry for her? Where was her wall to wall TV coverage? She was loved - but not by many, sadly. And so Cano will be out in a few years and Martha just a memory.
July 31, 2008 - 12:44pmThis Comment
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