In our May 28 “Saturday Surfing” round-up of recommended reading, we highlighted Lynn Harris’ essay for The Nation about new research on “reproductive coercion”: the alarming frequency with which young men try to get their partners pregnant, often by sabotaging birth control methods. Yesterday, GritTV with Laura Flanders interviewed Harris and Elizabeth Miller, the researcher who conducted the study, about the phenomenon and public health responses.
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Thank you for posting this. I will have to go back and read and review
Saturday’s post as well. I am teaching my women’s health education curriculum at
the Courage to Change Addiction Recovery Ranch – http://c2cranches.org. Most
women coming into the program are not only victims of domestic violence and
reproductive coercion, but they are victims of substance abuse either forced on
them by the men in their lives – or used as an escape from their abusers.
The only way to break this cycle of addiction/crime/violence is to develop
empowerment programs for women.
I have been exposed to many shocking things here – mostly stories about abuse and
the ugly depths of addiction, however, the number of young women with multiple
STD’s is the most appalling.
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