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In 1985, Jacquelyn Campbell, a nursing professor at Johns Hopkins, introduced the Danger Assessment, a survey for health care practitioners to screen patients for intimate partner violence. The assessment, which included questions about factors like whether an abusive partner had a gun or a job, was one of the first of its kind; at the time, the American public was just beginning to understand the scope of intimate partner violence, and retrospective studies showed the beginning of the increase in pregnancy-related homicides.

As The Trace’s Fairriona Magee reported in a feature story published last month, homicide is among the leading…