This text is panik driving "journalism". It ignores that women in Europe are now on average older than 20 years ago during a pregnancy. Thus the risk of anythin

This text is panik driving "journalism". It ignores that women in Europe are now on average older than 20 years ago during a pregnancy. Thus the risk of anything bad happening is higher. Without age-adjusting, it does not really help much. Also risks without comparisons are often meant to focus on one issue, and ignoring lots of others: All races and origins, female, 20-24 years (CDC) ... All causes 5,485 100.0 50.9 1 Accidents (unintentional injuries) (V01-X59,Y85-Y86)2,502 45.6 23.2 2 Intentional self-harm (suicide) (*U03,X60-X84,Y87.0) 672 12.3 6.2 3 Assault (homicide) (*U01-\*U02,X85-Y09,Y87.1) 428 7.8 4.0 4 Malignant neoplasms (C00-C97) 313 5.7 2.9 5 Diseases of heart (I00-I09,I11,I13,I20-I51) 195 3.6 1.8 6 Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O99) 140 2.6 1.3 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/lcwk/lcwk1_hr_2017-a.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/lcwk/lcwk1_hr_2017-a.pdf