Women forced to have abortions or to become pregnant.

[Mumminmum]

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/pregnancy-coercion-reproduction-abortion-a8834306.html Excuse me, what? That is grim!

Grim but unsurprising.

You only have to read the relationships boards on here. Abusive partners having "accidents" with condoms, stealthing, or otherwise subverting their wife/partner's birth control. Partners coercing their partners into abortions ("if you carry on with this pregnancy I'll leave you to be a single mum to all 3 of them").

Really does not surprise me ! I have two friends who got pregnant by accident and we're convinced to keep the baby by their partner - both partners do absolutely nothing for their children and both women are completely miserable.
It's not quite the same but I feel like women use 'casual' language to explain how things happen so it doesn't sound as bad or so they don't sound dramatic.
You hear a lot about men becoming abusive after women have children with them. I don't think it's a stretch to assume that these men convince women to have babies so they know they have more control.

I'm astounded the number is so high. Really shocked. 1 in 7?

The general assault against women continues into arguments against abortion rights.

I read the "Zuby" pro-life v feminism thread on Twitter - and one of the things being thrown about was women who have multiple abortions. The misogynistic language shocked me - and I read a lot of this stuff. But of course, when you read stuff like this Independent article, you realise that a proportion of the 'multiple abortions' women are going to be these same abused women. Yet the language used was stuff like "keep your legs together and don't shag losers" - well, easy to say - not such an easy thing for women in abusive relationships to do.

So it's an assault on women from all angles - women have 'pregnancy or abortion' forced on them by partners, then the abortion statistics are used against women as to reasons why we shouldn't have access to abortion. It sickens me.

It doesn't really surprise me. My ex gave me the option of separate or termination when I got pregnant unexpectedly. We were married so I wasn' expecting that kind of response.

We separated.

That's awful.
Maybe some of the women needing multiple abortions are married to contraceptive tamperers

There was a poster on here a long while back who’s husband was abusive. If I remember rightly they had 3 kids even though she wanted to stop at 2 and he was trying to persuade her to have another.
She left him eventually. Wish I knew how she was getting on. I’ve never forgotten her.