A woman's risk of being killed in the United States increases by 20 percent on average

when pregnant or after giving birth.

For those under 25, that risk more than doubles.

In fact, pregnant and postpartum women are more likely to be killed than die from childbirth

related issues like severe bleeding, infection, and high blood pressure. Special correspondent

Sarah Varney reports many of these killings are the result of domestic violence. She traveled

to Louisiana, where experts say state abortion restrictions are putting women further at risk.

I often say I experience domestic violence from within my mother's womb.

Shana Chavis grew up in rural Louisiana with a father that brutalized her mother even when she was pregnant.

The couple's second daughter died during childbirth because of that abuse, less than a year before Shana was born.

I remember even as a little child, I might have been two, three years old, my dad calling

us into the room to sit down and watch him beat my mom.

Years later, Shauna saw some of those same patterns in her own husband as he began controlling

and abusing her.

Once she had children, it became even harder to leave.

I need to leave because I need to make sure that my kids are safe.

But if I leave, are we going to be safe?

Because you're also thinking about if you leave and you go to court and he gets custody.

Because in your mind, you're already not thinking clear.

You're believing that you're dumb, you're crazy, you're stupid because he's told you all

of this and your brain is not really working properly because of all the licks to your head.

Then I'm not going to have my kids and I can't protect them.

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