In Republican-led states that ban abortion, anti-domestic violence groups say they expect more abused women to carry pregnancies to term — possessing little recourse if they’re coerced into pregnancy and keeping them tethered to dangerous partners.
could make it harder for anti-abuse organizations to provide housing, legal aid, workforce development programs and other resources to those who ask for it.
“It is putting a lot on a woman who is trying to flee for her life, to then try to figure out the legal side of her fight for safety,” Linam, who runs Hope Beyond Abortion,Kentucky Right to Life plans to refer pregnant people facing abuse to He isolated her from her friends, accused her of cheating and threatened to break up with her if she didn’t have sex with him, she said — but she thought she loved him, and she wanted to have the baby. Her mom talked her out of it, and she had an abortion.
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