Nearly 6 million U.S. women became pregnant due to sexual violence

[Judi Lynn]

AN. 31, 2024 / 9:50 AM

By Dennis Thompson, HealthDay

Becoming pregnant as a result of sexual violence is disturbingly common in the United States, a new study reveals.

Nearly 6 million U.S. women have become pregnant as a result of rape or sexual coercion, researchers reported recently in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

This equates to about one in every 20 American women enduring a pregnancy due to sexual violence, the researchers said.

"This study focuses attention on the intersection of violence and reproductive health and how rape and sexual coercion have a lasting impact on women's health and lives," said lead researcher Denise D'Angelo, a health scientist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Pregnancy resulting from sexual coercion -- non-physically forced, unwanted penetration -- is even more common than pregnancy resulting from rape, D'Angelo said.

More:
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2024/01/31/2191706711706/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. More if USSC overrules FDIC

birth control pills

[barbaraann]

2. And that's just the ones who become pregnant.

[PrincessMorgan]

3. wow

I wish people would start saying that men really are the problem. They are the ones doing this to women when will society wake up and say something...where are the supposed good men

[TSExile]

4. I am seriously starting to think that good men don't exist.

Otherwise, they are invisible. 💔