Coerced pregnancy

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I'm behind the speed curve on this.

http://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfacto...pregnancy-sheds-light-recent-abortion-debates

Pregnancy coercion is a story I started covering years ago for RH Reality Check, when the first preliminary research about it started to trickle out. The preliminary research was both upsetting and fascinating, because it suggested that a shocking percentage of unintended pregnancies were caused by abusive men sabotaging contraception, using pregnancy as a weapon to control their partners. Obviously, many other researchers thought it as fascinating as I did, because now a number of studies are coming out with similar findings, including one from the National Domestic Violence Hotline that 1 in 4 women calling the hotline had experienced some form of pregnancy coercion.

How often does this happen?

Do you know anyone who was coerced into getting pregnant?
 
I'm behind the speed curve on this.

http://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfacto...pregnancy-sheds-light-recent-abortion-debates



How often does this happen?

Do you know anyone who was coerced into getting pregnant?

If the definition and degree of rape are debated, can you imagine trying to define "coerced"?

I know several women who became pregnant and later felt they had been deceived by their partner. One had a partner who talked about the joy of having another baby. She fell for this and later discovered another woman was pregnant by him. The baby talk was to keep her from kicking him out of the house when she found out about the pregnant girlfriend. Is this coercion or entrapment?

All discussion of rape and abortion is disingenuous. It is all an attempt to allow some abortions, but not others. It has no other purpose.

Abortion is one of those issues where there is a point of true black and white, with nothing in between. After an abortion, a fetus is dead. No in between.

If abortion is permissible, the reason is irrelevant. If abortion is not permissible, there is no reason which can make it permissible. This is not a case of right or wrong. It is simply a choice of what we allow and what we don't.
 
i've had blazing rows over my refusal to have a guy's baby. that and marriage. the two things that should never be pressurised but so often are.
i've had partners try to sneak in without rubber, making noises like it was in place. i've had guys use playfully rough sex as an opportunity to ignore my wishes.

it's about ownership. once you're either married to them or pregnant by them you belong to them. they think they'll have you for keeps.

the folly of youth...these days i'd just kick balls and walk out.
 
i've had blazing rows over my refusal to have a guy's baby. that and marriage. the two things that should never be pressurised but so often are.
i've had partners try to sneak in without rubber, making noises like it was in place. i've had guys use playfully rough sex as an opportunity to ignore my wishes.

it's about ownership. once you're either married to them or pregnant by them you belong to them. they think they'll have you for keeps.

the folly of youth...these days i'd just kick balls and walk out.

Guys really do that?

I"m always shocked to find out that there are people who are that pathetic ou tthere.
 
Guys really do that?

I"m always shocked to find out that there are people who are that pathetic out there.

and the best bit is, they were perfectly normal human beings with all their other girlfriends. i think i inspire insanity.

but actually, it's the most natural impulse in the world. on an animal level. own woman, pass on genes, spear mammoth.
 
and the best bit is, they were perfectly normal human beings with all their other girlfriends. i think i inspire insanity.

but actually, it's the most natural impulse in the world. on an animal level. own woman, pass on genes, spear mammoth.

...move on to next woman.
 
and the best bit is, they were perfectly normal human beings with all their other girlfriends. i think i inspire insanity.

but actually, it's the most natural impulse in the world. on an animal level. own woman, pass on genes, spear mammoth.

I have spent a great deal of my life in earnest effort to prevent pregnancies. If any man believes a pregnant woman increases his control over the world, he is insane.
 
i wish!

obsess over woman, start drinking far too much, dabble in a little light stalking.

and then the fuckers revert to sanity and lead perfectly normal, healthy lives.

I was sort of riffing on your animal-level idea. Civilization has interfered with all th more fun baser instincts.
 
i wish!

obsess over woman, start drinking far too much, dabble in a little light stalking.

and then the fuckers revert to sanity and lead perfectly normal, healthy lives.

You do realize that those three clauses are perfectly acceptable as names for art rock bands.

Obsess Over Woman

Start Drinking Too Much

Dabble In A Little Light Stalking

also

Revert To Sanity

has a nice ring to it.
 
You do realize that those three clauses are perfectly acceptable as names for art rock bands.

Obsess Over Woman

Start Drinking Too Much

Dabble In A Little Light Stalking

also

Revert To Sanity

has a nice ring to it.
revert to sanity works for me.


i'm inspirational :)
 
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