Reproductive coercion is a form of gender-based violence. It’s likely more common than we realise

By Desireé LaGrappe, PhD Candidate & Coordinator, Reducing Gender-based Violence Network | NHMRC and Fulbright grantee, La Trobe University
Angela Taft, Emeritus Professor, Judith Lumley Centre (JLC) of Mother, Infant and Family Health, La Trobe University
Kristina Edvardsson, Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery and the Judith Lumley Centre, La Trobe University
Laura Tarzia, Associate Professor and Deputy Lead of the Sexual and Family Violence Program at the Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne
Leesa Hooker, Professor, Principal Research Fellow at the La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University

Behaviour to ‘promote’ or prevent pregnancy can intersect with domestic, family and sexual violence. It weaponises someone’s reproductive capacity to control them.

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