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International Violence Against Women Act Introduced in House & Senate
Violence prevention experts and human rights advocates cheered Thursday when Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA), and Representatives William Delahunt (D-MA), Ted Poe (R-TX) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), spoke at a Capitol Hill event celebrating the introduction of the International Violence Against Women Act. This groundbreaking legislation would, for the first time, make stopping violence against women and girls a priority in American diplomacy and foreign aid. [...]
Study: Many Victims of Partner Violence Experience Reproductive Coercion
A groundbreaking study released this week sheds light on a little-recognized form of abuse in which men use coercion and birth control sabotage to cause their partners to become pregnant against their wills. The study, published in the January issue of Contraception, finds this kind of reproductive control to be especially common in relationships in which women experience physical or sexual partner violence. [...]
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