[supercat]

Not officially. But the records the states keep aren't reliable, at all for good comparisons.

I guess I find it surprising that more women aren't dying, since the number of yearly abortions has increased something like a hundredfold, hasn't it?

[hocndoc]

The numbers have increased for both abortions and, probably, for maternal deaths. But, there is no way of knowing until we have better counts and accountability.
At least this year, the nation's standardized death certificate, for the first time, requires reporting whether or not a woman wa pregnant at death or in the last year. The statistics should get a little more reliable.