Domestic Abusers Are Using Abortion Bans to Control Their Victims
Domestic Abusers Are Using Abortion Bans to Control Their Victims
In the year before Roe fell, roughly 1,230 people told the National Domestic Violence Hotline that they had endured some kind of what anti-domestic abuse activists call âreproductive coercion,â including being denied an abortion or being forced into one. In the year since it was overturned, 2,442 people said the same. Thatâs a 99-percent increase.
Letâs not pretend that banning abortion just didnât make any kind of difference.