UC Davis Health System: UC Davis study finds reproductive coercion often is accompanied...

UC Davis Health System: UC Davis study finds reproductive coercion often is accompanied by physical or sexual violence:

Young women and teenage girls often face efforts by male partners to sabotage birth control or coerce pregnancy — including damaging condoms and destroying contraceptives — and these efforts, defined as “reproductive coercion,” frequently are associated with physical or sexual violence, a study by a team of researchers led by UC Davis has found...

“We have known about the association between partner violence and unintended pregnancy for many years,” said Jay Silverman, the study’s senior author and an associate professor of society, human development and health in the Harvard School of Public Health. “What this study shows is that reproductive coercion likely explains why unintended pregnancies are far more common among abused women and teens.”

...The study also highlights the importance of working with young men to prevent both violence against female partners and coercion around pregnancy.

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