More teens are reporting that a partner has threatened their reproductive health

The increase in "reproductive coercion” calls to the National Domestic Violence Hotline after the overturn of Roe v. Wade underscores the need for policies addressing teen dating violence, experts say.

Jennifer Gerson
February 22, 2024

The country’s central domestic violence hotline received a major spike in calls from teens about reproductive coercion in the year following the overturn of Roe v. Wade.

New data from the National Domestic Violence Hotline (NVDH), also known as The Hotline, shows that 24 13- to 17-year-olds called about reproductive coercion in the year before June 2022; in the next year, that number rose to 44.

Continued: https://19thnews.org/2024/02/teens-national-domestic-violence-hotline-reproductive-coercion/

22.02.2024

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USA – Abortion access a lifeline for domestic violence survivors

Abortion bans give abusers the tools to continue to manipulate their partners

Sylvia Ghazarian, American Forum
Oct 29, 2023

National Domestic Violence Awareness Month serves as a sobering reminder of the countless survivors who have endured the horrors of domestic violence. As we stand in solidarity during October, we must recognize that the battle against this extends far beyond this designated month. The voices of survivors, once muffled by fear and shame, must be amplified relentlessly. Accountability must be thrust upon the perpetrators, and the survivors must be liberated from the guilt that they carry.

One in three women and one in four men experience partner physical violence, partner sexual violence and/or partner stalking. On an average day, there are more than 20,000 phone calls placed to domestic violence hotlines nationwide. In the end, studies have shown that there is a correlation between intimate partner violence and depression. At WRRAP last year approximately 15% of those we provided funding to were survivors of domestic violence. And, for the first half of this year we have over 16% who have reported they are survivors of DV.

Continued: https://www.news-press.com/story/opinion/2023/10/29/abortion-access-a-lifeline-for-domestic-violence-survivors/71316908007/

29.10.2023

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‘Have you bled yet?’: China doctor boyfriend secretly gives girlfriend abortion pills and sleeping tablets

- Woman tells urologist lover ‘good news’ but he does not want baby
- Medic puts drugs in girlfriend’s drink resulting in ‘massive bleeding’

Liya Su in Shanghai
22 Oct, 2023

The girlfriend of a urologist in China has claimed he drugged her with sleeping tablets then gave her abortion pills that resulted in the loss of their baby.

The couple had been in a romantic relationship since November 2021 and the woman, surnamed Wang, found out she was pregnant on May 14 this year.

Continued: https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3238491/have-you-bled-yet-china-doctor-boyfriend-secretly-gives-girlfriend-abortion-pills-and-sleeping

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Domestic Violence Calls About ‘Reproductive Coercion’ Doubled After the Overturn of Roe

Those experiencing domestic violence are facing a reality where an inability to receive reproductive care is also further endangering their lives, new data shows.

10/20/2023
by JENNIFER GERSON, THE 19^TH

Reports of abuse involving reproductive coercion—actions that prevent someone from making crucial decisions about their body and reproductive health—nearly doubled in the yearlong period after Roe v. Wade was overturned, according to new data from the National Domestic Violence Hotline (NDVH).

“If you cannot make these decisions, it could mean unfortunately that you have to stay in an abusive situation longer than you want to,” Marium Durrani, the vice president of public policy at the NDVH, told The 19th. “It could impact your escape, it could mean that potentially you’re forced to have a child with someone you don’t want to have a child with.”
Continued: https://msmagazine.com/2023/10/20/domestic-violence-reproductive-coercion-doubled-roe-dobbs/

USA – The link between a lack of reproductive rights and domestic violence

Jul 14, 2023
By Amna Nawaz, Shoshana Dubnow
Video: 5:11 minutes

Long before the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, researchers noticed a link between women having abortion access and a reduced risk of violence from men. In the wake of the court's decision, the opposite is happening and abortion restrictions have led to a significant uptick in intimate partner violence. Amna Nawaz discussed more with NewsHour health reporter Laura Santhanam.

Continued: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-link-between-a-lack-of-reproductive-rights-and-domestic-violence

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USA – Domestic Abusers Are Using Abortion Bans to Control Their Victims

After Roe v. Wade fell, the National Domestic Violence Hotline saw a 99-percent increase in callers reporting that people were trying to control their reproductive choices.

By Carter Sherman
July 13, 2023

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, people warned abortion bans would become another tool for people to abuse their partners. A year later, early data indicates those warnings were right.

In the year before Roe fell, roughly 1,230 people told the National Domestic Violence Hotline that they had endured some kind of what anti-domestic abuse activists call “reproductive coercion,” including being denied an abortion or being forced into one. In the year since it was overturned, 2,442 people said the same. That’s a 99-percent increase.

Continued: https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3yny/abortion-bans-domestic-abusers

Greenlanders speak out about forced contraception

Thousands of young Greenland Inuit were the victim of a 1960s policy to limit the birth rate in the Arctic territory, which was no longer a colony at the time but still under Danish control.

Published: 8 July 2022

“I had to spread my legs, and when it was put in it hurt terribly,” said Britta Mortensen, who was 15 she when was forced to have a coil, or intrauterine device (IUD), fitted.

Like thousands of young Greenland Inuit, Mortensen was the victim of a policy to limit the birth rate in the Arctic territory, which was still under Danish control at the time.

Continued: https://www.thelocal.dk/20220708/greenlanders-speak-out-about-forced-contraception/

08.07.2022

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Reproductive control of Indigenous women continues around the world, say survivors and researchers

Survivors of forced sterilization and coerced contraception from Canada, Peru and Indonesia will meet with researchers to share stories, heal and advocate for change.

June 27, 2022
by Gillian Rutherford

Survivors of forced sterilization and coerced contraception from Canada, Peru and Indonesia will gather with academic researchers at a summit in Edmonton this summer to share stories, heal through art and ceremony, and set an agenda for change.

The full extent of reproductive control practices around the world is not known, but they have been historically — and continue to be — targeted at Indigenous, poor and migrant women, according to principal investigator Denise Spitzer, professor in the School of Public Health and former Canada Research Chair in Gender, Migration and Health.

Continued: https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2022/06/reproductive-control-of-indigenous-women-continues-around-the-world.html

27.06.2022

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USA – Abortion opponents don’t care if pregnant women get murdered

The top cause of maternal mortality is violence. Forcing women to carry to term will make it so much worse

By MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS
PUBLISHED MAY 30, 2022

This all happened in the past two weeks alone: Nekea Brooks was 27 years old, and two months pregnant, when she was shot and killed in Fayetteville, NC on May 16. She leaves behind a five year-old daughter. Mijor Kay Anderson was a pregnant 30 year-old mother of eight when she went missing from Vicksburg, MS last October. Her body was found, "rolled up and tossed away like trash," in the words of her sister Amy Anderson-Williams, on May 17. Tamarra Deloache of York, PA was 32 and six months pregnant when was found dead from "sharp force trauma" in her apartment on May 18. She leaves behind a 12 year-old son.

The leading cause of death in pregnant and postpartum women in the US is not heart disease, diabetes, or infection. It's murder. Gutting abortion rights will make it so, so much worse.

https://www.salon.com/2022/05/30/abortion-opponents-dont-care-if-pregnant-women-get-murdered/

US Donors Are Helping Push Anti-Abortion Agendas in British Schools

A British anti-abortion group that gives talks in schools has received over £72,000 from the US over the last 2 years, VICE World News can reveal.

By Sophia Smith Galer
May 30, 2022

An anti-abortion group in the UK that gives talks to schoolchildren and medical professionals about what it terms “coerced abortion” is receiving tens of thousands of dollars from anonymous US-based backers, VICE World News can reveal.

Nearly £73,000 ($91,885, €85,330) has been donated anonymously via a donor agency called NPT Transatlantic in the past two years to the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child’s (SPUC) registered charity, one of the UK’s most active anti-abortion groups. The agency allows US and UK taxpayers to donate to organisations across the Atlantic without revealing their name and without qualifying for any tax deduction.

Continued: https://www.vice.com/en/article/93be83/anti-abortion-schools-uk