Sunday, September 23, 2007

ok, so this is from jezebel.com.....just in time for my lecture on contraception.....Elizabeth Miller was a volunteer physician in a Boston clinic when she treated a 15-year-old girl who asked for a pregnancy test. The results were negative, but two weeks later, the girl was treated at a nearby emergency room for a severe head injury. Her boyfriend had pushed her down a flight of stairs. Miller is now studying adolescent partner violence. A quarter of the teenage girls she has interviewed -- all of whom had histories of abusive relationships -- say their partners were actively trying to get them pregnant. "The analysis included 53 girls between the ages of 15 and 20 who reported being sexually active and involved in relationships that included recurring patterns of physical, sexual or emotional abuse from a male partner. Twenty-six percent of these girls reported that their partners were actively trying to get them pregnant by manipulating condom use, sabotaging birth control use and making explicit statements about wanting them to become pregnant." Honestly, this is so fucked up we have no words.

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