Anti-Abortion Laws Linked To Increase In Domestic Violence Deaths, Study Shows
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Anti-Abortion Laws Linked To Increase In Domestic Violence Deaths, Study Shows

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Anti-abortion laws increase the likelihood that pregnant victims of domestic violence will be murdered by their abusive partner, according to a new study. The study, published Monday in a leading peer-reviewed health care journal Health Affairs, looked at data from 2014 to 2020 to analyze the link between anti-abortion laws and intimate partner violence before the Dobbs decision that repealed Roe v. Wade. “We know that TRAP laws were some of the most commonly-enacted abortion restrictions across states for the past decade before the Dobbs decision came down,” Maeve Wallace, lead author of the study and a reproductive health care epidemiologist at Tulane University, told HuffPost. “TRAP laws lead to abortion clinic closures, therefore making it more difficult for people to get abortions, especially people without resources who might be in dangerous situations in terms of violence in the home,” she added, noting that TRAP laws are “politically motivated attempts to close clinics.” TRAP laws are state-level restrictions that are designed to make it harder for abortion clinics and staff to provide care.

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Opinion | The Tragic Link Between Pregnancy and Homicide
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Opinion | The Tragic Link Between Pregnancy and Homicide

New York Times  

It’s a startling statistic: In the United States, a woman’s risk of being killed grows when she becomes pregnant and after giving birth — by about 20 percent, on average. How pregnant women and women who have recently given birth die in Louisiana Pregnancy-associated deaths from 2017 to 2020 total deaths 20 40 60 Accidental overdose Homicide Motor vehicle crash …

The Supreme Court’s Abortion Rulings Have Made Intimate Partner Violence Deadlier
5 months, 4 weeks ago

The Supreme Court’s Abortion Rulings Have Made Intimate Partner Violence Deadlier

Slate  

This is part of Opinionpalooza, Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court this June. In the year following Dobbs, calls to a domestic violence hotline that mentioned reproductive coercion nearly doubled, and this is unsurprising given the relationship between reproductive rights and intimate partner violence. But in Dobbs, the Supreme Court enabled states to rob women of …

Domestic Abuse And Abortion Bans Create Danger Post-Roe
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Domestic Abuse And Abortion Bans Create Danger Post-Roe

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING A new report highlights the connection between abortion access and intimate partner violence since the Supreme Court repealed federal abortion protections two years ago. “When you have a country that has now allowed abusive partners to be completely emboldened in restricting access to health care, in allowing someone to feel like they cannot control their own bodies, …

Homicide Is a Leading Cause of Death for Pregnant People. Abortion Bans Are Making Things Worse.
9 months ago

Homicide Is a Leading Cause of Death for Pregnant People. Abortion Bans Are Making Things Worse.

Slate  

When Julianne McShane wanted to report on how some of the most vulnerable women in the United States were dealing with the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, she knew exactly where she needed to go: Tulsa, Oklahoma. But that study also found that pregnant people who died of homicide were more likely to die because of intimate …

Forced pregnancy and childbirth are violence against women — and also terrible health policy
2 years, 7 months ago

Forced pregnancy and childbirth are violence against women — and also terrible health policy

Salon  

In 1995, while working as a legislative assistant for the American Civil Liberties Union, one of us advised state ACLU affiliates how to deal with bills restricting abortion rights. Forced pregnancy and childbirth are unique: In no other circumstance can the state legally force a human being to endure sexual abuse. And many women experience long-term effects of pregnancy and …

The Texas Abortion Ban Handed Abusers A Whole New Tool To Control Their Victims With
3 years, 1 month ago

The Texas Abortion Ban Handed Abusers A Whole New Tool To Control Their Victims With

Huff Post  

Warning: The following story contains descriptions of domestic abuse. “The Texas abortion ban really speaks directly to intimate partner violence in the ways that it replicates control over women’s bodies and strips away their autonomy,” said Amber Sutton, a licensed clinical social worker and Ph.D. student in the School of Social Work at the University of Alabama, where she’s researching …

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