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"When you can’t get abortion or reproductive care in your community, you’re just more vulnerable to violence,” one domestic violence expert told Jezebel
—who had a prior record of domestic violence—for getting an abortion. Before that, in the summer of 2022, a Missouri man wasto life in prison for murdering his wife in 2019; before she went missing, she’d searched on her cell phone, “What to do if your husband is upset you are pregnant.”Monday by Health Affairs, finds that there’s a direct link between anti-abortion laws and a higher rate of domestic violence-related homicide.
“Survivors are being trapped by these abortion laws,” Durrani said, “and in this really terrible new landscape, it’s only going to, frankly, cause more death, more violence targeting people who are in abusive relationships.”, which similarly found that people who are denied abortion care are at a significantly greater risk of long-term domestic violence. “You might find people tied to their abusers for much longer if they have children with them, creating heightened, longer-term danger.
Rita Smith, vice president of external relations at Domestic Shelters, told Jezebel that “abusers are good at using every tactic, every strategy, every tool—including the law—to control the life of a victim.” This can include “refusing to let them see a doctor, or get abortion,” or,, using abortion bans to “harass victims with lawsuits” for obtaining abortion care. “They find opportunities everywhere,” Smith said. “Abortion bans have created a new opportunity.
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