Ob-gyns sound alarm on “contraceptive sabotage”

Author
Genevra Pittman
Year
2013
Published in
Thomson Reuters Foundation

“What we’ve found is that many male partners are more actively involved than we would have thought in really blocking women and girls’ ability to do that [contracept, to control their reproductive health], as a form of control that’s part of a larger picture of violence against women and girls.”  — Jay Silverman, who studies violence against women at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

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