Giving birth is dangerous work. Arguably it’s the most dangerous work. We tend to think that the most dangerous work is done by men in predominantly masculine professions, like firefighters and police officers. But our assumptions are wrong. As mentioned in the list above, in the United States, the mortality rate for pregnancy is 17.4 per 100,000 people. The on-duty murder rate for police officers is 13.5 per 100,000 people. Which means a pregnant woman is more likely to die due to that pregnancy than a police officer is to be killed on the job. And it’s not just that pregnancy
