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by Katzmann1983 1201 days ago
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