According to the Centers for Disease Control, more than 3 women a day are killed at the hands of their intimate partner. Three. A. Day. Homicide is THE leading cause of death for pregnant and post partum (within one year) women, and accounts for 31% of all maternal injury related deaths, making it the riskiest complication of pregnancy in the first place.
A pretty, white, suburban housewife and her baby are found brutally murdered, and her husband is arrested on suspicion of killing them. Two other women were also killed that day, and three more the day after that, and so on.... Let's not forget about them either.
