Survey connects partner abuse, sabotaging of birth control

[alp227]

Report Details Sabotage of Birth Control

Men who abuse women physically and emotionally may also sabotage their partners’ birth control, pressuring them to become pregnant against their will, new reports suggest.

Several small studies have described this kind of coercion among low-income teenagers and young adults with a history of violence by intimate partners. Now, a report being released Tuesday by the federally financed National Domestic Violence Hotline says 1 in 4 women who agreed to answer questions after calling the hot line said a partner had pressured them to become pregnant, told them not to use contraceptives, or forced them to have unprotected sex.

The report was based on answers from more than 3,000 women, but it was not a research study, those involved said.

Full story: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/health/research/15pregnant.html

[Skittles]

1. sounds like they are talking about repukes

[glinda]

2. Anytime we are talking about "control", we are talking abuse. This is also

IMHO the root of the abortion issue to some extent.