May 4 (Lifesitenews.com)- A US government study has found that homicide is the leading cause in the death of infants due to injury. Looking at children under one year of age, researchers from the National Institute of Child Health and Development identified a total of 10,370 injury deaths over the 9-year study period from 1983-91. According to CNN researcher examined birth an death certificates to find that “homicide, including battery, shaking and throwing the child, accounted for 23 percent of all injury deaths.”
The study, in this month’s Pediatrics journal carried the following chart:
Causes Of Early Childhood Death From Injury
Homicide 22.6 percent
Suffocation 17.7 percent
Motor vehicle accident 15.2 percent
Fire 9.5 percent
Drowning 7.2 percent
Choking on food 7.1 percent
Choking on objects 5.9 percent
Other unintentional injuries 10.6 percent
Injuries of undetermined intent 4.2 percent
Source: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Adjusted to include the 9 million babies killed by abortion, also a death by injury, the chart would look like this.
Abortion 99.88 percent
Homicide 0.03 percent
Suffocation 0.02 percent
Motor vehicle accident 0.02 percent
Fire 0.01 percent
Drowning 0.01 percent
Choking on food 0.01 percent
Choking on objects 0.01 percent
Other unintentional injuries 0.01 percent
Injuries of undetermined intent 0.00 percent
See the CNN story:
Homicide leading cause of injury death in infants