Our thanks to Alan for this. The start of the piece:

Reproductive coercion is a lesser-known type of abuse. It’s when someone uses pregnancy, contraception and sex to control a person.

Examples vary, but can include forcing someone to have an abortion they don’t want, damaging or hiding contraceptives and pressurising someone not to use condoms. [J4MB: Killing an unborn child without reference to the child’s father is, of course, ignored.]

To find out how common it is, the BBC commissioned a survey of 1,000 UK women aged 18-44 – and found that 50% said they had experienced at least one type of reproductive coercion.

Alan writes:

The article characterises coercion as something solely done be men against women completely ignoring the vast numbers of women who ‘forget’ to take a pill thereby unilaterally deciding on pregnancy, and those who lie about paternity thereby coercing men into massive lifetime commitments.

How do they manage this? Simple – they only asked women. It’s so shameless and blatantly dishonest yet apparently completely acceptable and will probably excite no comment or criticism.

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