On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 05:35:06 -0500, Attila  wrote:

>
>About 75,000 women die annually  of  botched  abortions  and
>another 75,000 of brain and kidney damage  in  eclampsia,  a
>disorder that can cause high blood pressure and  convulsions
>late in pregnancy. At least 100,000 die of  blood  poisoning
>and 40,000 of obstructed labor.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr53/nvsr53_05.pdf
All "maternal causes" (including eclampsia) = 357 deaths in
the US in 2002.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005074.html
4,021,726 births in the US in 2002.

Death rate = 1 per 11,265 births.

For race=white: 190 deaths and 3,174,760 births;
rate = 1 "maternal cause" death per 16,709 births.





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