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04/12/2008: "Murdered Pregnant Women: The Racial Divide"

When Laci Peterson became the symbol of maternal homicide in the mass media and in the law books (the Violence Against Unborn Children Act is also known as the Laci and Connor's Law), it put a white face on the horrendous crime of maternal homicide. In reality, that face is actually young, and often, black.

According to the CDC, black women have a maternal homicide risk about seven times that of white women. Black women ages 25-29 are about 11 times more likely as white women in that age group to be murdered while pregnant or in the year after childbirth.

[ The public has to be given the impression that no such racial divide exists, thus a white woman has to represent a situation far more common amongst blacks. Multiculturalism fails. ]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/11/national/main4009249.shtml