Nearly one in seven women who sought abortions at a large family planning clinic in Iowa reported at least one incident of physical or sexual abuse in the past year, a new study, "Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence Among an Abortion Clinic Population," found. Published in the American Journal of Public Health researchers at the University of Iowa, College of Public Health and Planned Parenthood of the Heartland studied 986 patients over the course of a year.
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Posted by Ksenia Oustiougova
Saturday, July 31, 2010 08:05
To add to this, child sexual abuse victims are prone to get pregnant at a very early age – being an incest survivor myself, I can tell you where it is coming from. We, survivors, have no boundaries when it comes to sex. Our boundaries have been constantly violated, and we assume that it is ok to give away our body for the pleasure of the other. I got pregnant at 17 and gave birth to my daughter at 18 – I simply couldn’t do an abortion, and I am happy I didn’t.