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In the US, P(co-sleeping | elevated risk for post-natal abortion) >> P(elevated risk of post-natal abortion | co-sleeping). The babies who are not at risk for post-natal abortion (and hence much less likely to get killed by co-sleeping) generally find themselves in cribs anyway, which contributes to the average American woman thinking co-sleeping is far more dangerous than it actually is.
That said, there is a valid reason to ensure innocent mothers whose babies actually do magically up and die on them aren't getting prosecuted for murder by default, and SIDS is the mechanism by which that is done [which is why we generally limit our prosecution of it to obviously depraved-heart things, like "no longer visibly a baby" or "left the child, with the whole cord still attached, in the trash can"]. It still creates lots of waste by neurotic mothers who think the average SIDS case isn't a sufficiently deniable post-natal abortion, though.
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