Report details birth control sabotage....

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.

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The hot line’s report did not include a comparison group and did not gather information about the participants, who were questioned anonymously; nor was it published in a peer-reviewed journal. It was based on answers to four questions posed to 3,169 women around the country who contacted the domestic violence hot line between Aug. 16 and Sept. 26, 2010, who were not in immediate danger and who agreed to participate. About 6,800 callers refused to answer the questions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/health/research/15pregnant.html?_r=1&ref=science

Hmm...so will women quit being solely blamed for getting pregnant? Probably not.

Misogynists SUCK.

A pregnant woman/woman with a child is likely to be more dependent on her abuser/less attractive to other men and less likely to leave/report the abuser.

“It’s really important to recognize reproductive coercion as another mechanism for control in an unhealthy relationship,” Dr. Miller said. At the same time, she added, younger women and girls dating older men may be confused by the pressure to become pregnant.

She specifically mentions it.

It really bugs the hell out of me when they refuse to call rape by it's name.

If a man finds out the woman gets pregnant and pressures her to have an abortion?

I was married and accidentally got pregnant and my husband wanted me to get an abortion. He said we could not afford it. He was selfish. He had a good job and had insurance. I figured he wanted me to get an abortion, and postpone it until we were "ready" and he would NEVER be ready because everything was measured in dollars to him.

I refused and now have a beautiful grown daughter.

He insisted that I trapped him into marriage. We were married nearly a year when I got pregnant. He should have used his own rubbers.