contraceptive sabotage
Study: Simple Intervention May Reduce Reproductive Coercion
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
August 29, 2010 - 11:51pm (Print)
A new pilot study by researchers at the University of California-Davis School of Medicine finds that a simple intervention--asking women visiting family planning clinics about sexual violence and coercion--can dramatically reduce the incidence of a form of intimate-partner violence known as reproductive coercion.
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When Partner Abuse Isn't a Bruise But a Pregnant Belly
by Lynn Harris
June 29, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)
Sexual violence and coercion by intimate partners plays a critical role in unintended pregnancy, the spread of sexually transmitted infections, poor maternal outcomes and in abortion. The problems of violence, control, and contraceptive sabotage are so widespread that public-health advocates see teen pregnancy as a "canary in a coal mine" or one indicator of possible abuse.
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