The Lancet, a distinguished British medical journal, is just out with a sweeping, heartbreaking series on stillbirth, a tragedy that strikes one in 200 births even here in the wealthy United States. For African-American women, it’s one in 87 births. In the developing world, it’s even worse. The papers in the series are free to download, and full of little-known facts about what one author calls “one of the last taboos.” They point out that progress in stemming stillbirths has largely stalled, and that many stillbirths are preventable, but it will take education, effort and more research.