Quote Originally Posted by basschick
you don't think it's amazing that pregnant women aren't killed by accidents or pregnancy-related health problems before murder by lovers?

i sure do! accidents - especially car accidents - are plentiful. i would have expected it to be that.
Of course it's a fucked up fact that so many pregnant women are killed by their partners. That's a sad mark on society and humanity and whatever psychological factors go in to such horrible actions being committed.

But again, homicides are already a leading cause of death among young people. And I don't know about all pregnant women, but thinking of the ones I've known, they probably engage in lifestyle changes that'd make a dent in the likelihood of accidental death. A pregnant woman might drive more carefully. Not go bike riding or take extra care in descending a flight of steps. Not go skiing. Get medical checkups more frequently and be immersed in the healthcare system. So all of those factors could contribute to decreases in accidental causes of death among pregnant women.

I'm not disputing that there's an alarming phenomenon of pregant women being killed by their partners. I'm just saying that there's more to statistics than just the statistics, and that being a heterosexual male in and of itself doesn't make anyone a bad person, nor does it make them more prone and more likely to becoming a bad person.