Coercive Control During Pregnancy, Birthing and Postpartum: Women’s Experiences and Perspectives on Health Practitioners’ Responses

Buchanan, Fiona; Humphreys, Cathy

doi:10.1007/s10896-020-00161-5

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“…Pregnancy preventing RCA can include excessive monitoring of pill usage, abortion coercion, and pressure to accept a contraceptive implant or undergo sterilisation 6. As a form of coercive control, RCA can include the micromanagement of everyday aspects of reproductive healthcare, including interactions with healthcare professionals 7. Importantly, a systematic review found it is more common for there to be RCA to continue a pregnancy than abortion coercion 8.…”

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Safeguarding for reproductive coercion and abuse

Lowe

2022

BMJ Sex Reprod Health

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Safeguarding for reproductive coercion and abuse

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2022

BMJ Sex Reprod Health

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“…Similarly, “reproductive coercion” was a relatively new term for workers in domestic violence services, who tended to define it very broadly [ 34 ]. There are indications that coercive control and violence, lack of culturally responsive service delivery, and structural barriers to essential health care and support, compound to make some women and pregnant people particularly vulnerable, and these sorts of intersections warrant further research attention [ 23 , 35 ].…”

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Reproductive coercion and abuse among pregnancy counselling clients in Australia: trends and directions

Sheeran

Vallury²,

Sharman

et al. 2022

Reprod Health

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Background Reproductive coercion and abuse (RCA) interferes with a person’s reproductive autonomy and can be classified into behaviours that are pregnancy promoting or pregnancy preventing (including coerced abortion). However, prevalence data are lacking, and little is known about whether particular forms of RCA are more or less common. The aims of our study were to explore how frequently people seeking pregnancy counselling reported RCA, the proportions reporting the different forms of RCA, and whether there were different trends based on a range of demographic factors. Methods Data were collected from 5107 clients seeking counselling support for their pregnancy between January 2018 and December 2020 from two leading providers of pregnancy counselling and sexual and reproductive health services in Australia, Marie Stopes Australia and Children by Choice. Counsellors identified and recorded the presence of RCA and whether the behaviour was pregnancy promoting and/or pregnancy preventing. Demographic factors included age, and whether the person identified as being from a migrant or refugee community or as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person. Results RCA was identified in 15.4% of clients, with similar proportions disclosing RCA towards pregnancy (6%) and towards pregnancy prevention or abortion (7.5%), and 1.9% experiencing RCA towards pregnancy and abortion concurrently. There were no differences based on age or whether the person identified as being from a migrant or refugee background, though people who identified as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander experienced RCA that was significantly more likely to be pregnancy promoting. Conclusions RCA is commonly disclosed by people seeking support in a pregnancy counselling context, and coercion and abuse is equally likely to be towards pregnancy promotion or pregnancy prevention/abortion. Given the prevalence and negative impacts of RCA, regardless of age and background, we recommend sensitive and culturally respectful enquiry around experiences of RCA be embedded in healthcare, health education, and health research.

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“…It is therefore this reality of intertwined violence that our data illustrate. This understanding of the co-occurrence of forms of violence is important to document and measure, as it reveals a context of severe victimization, as depicted in other qualitative studies focusing on violence and the perinatal period ( Buchanan & Humphreys, 2021 ; Edin et al, 2010 ). This reality seems less described by studies that have quantitatively taken an interest in this phenomenon; these often measure a limited number of forms of violence or dichotomize violence according to its absence or presence ( Daoud et al, 2012 ; James et al, 2013 ; Taillieu & Brownridge, 2010 ).…”

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Portrayal of Domestic Violence Trajectories During the Perinatal Period

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Boulebsol

Lessard

et al. 2021

Violence Against Women

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Domestic violence during the perinatal period (DVPP) refers to the various ways that women’s partners or ex-partners control and coerce them during pregnancy and the 2 years postpartum. From the descriptions of 17 women with firsthand experience of DVPP, this article reports on its manifestations and the associated contexts. The results reveal escalating violence, diverse forms of violence, and exacerbated consequences over the perinatal period. The contexts that pose additional challenges for the women include financial precariousness and the partner’s substance abuse, and to a lesser extent the residential situation.

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Coercive Control During Pregnancy, Birthing and Postpartum: Women’s Experiences and Perspectives on Health Practitioners’ Responses

Cited by 19 publications

References 41 publications

Safeguarding for reproductive coercion and abuse

Safeguarding for reproductive coercion and abuse

Reproductive coercion and abuse among pregnancy counselling clients in Australia: trends and directions

Portrayal of Domestic Violence Trajectories During the Perinatal Period

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