http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/doctors-warn-againstreproductive-coercion/2013/01/28/0bcbfbf8-6987-11e2-9a0b-db931670f35d_story.htmlCN: article discusses the issue of "reproductive coersion," which basically involves men getting women pregnant against their will by sabatoging BC, refusing to wear a condom, etc.
There are a few red flags this aritcle raises for me...first, isn't it a man's right to refuse to wear a condom? If a woman doesn't want to have sex with an uncondomed man, that's her right. (If he were to force sex upon her anyway, that's rape, not just reporductive coersion). I don't like the idea that one's sexual partner has any right to force their partner to put anything in or on their body. That doesn't sit well with me.
Second, the aritcle specifically mentions pressuring a woman not to abort as being abusive...I have a problem with this, considering a man has every right to try to protect his unborn child. I don't think that should be considered abusive. Further, we should be talking about how horrible it is when men pressure women to HAVE abortions. I've never seen that discussed in mainstream media.
Lastly, and most importantly by far, is that the article clearly states in several ways that these are abusive relationships, where the coersion is clearly not the only problem. Why, then, is the solution to give women "undetectable" BC, or extra stashes of BC? So we can make it easier for her to stay with an abusive man? That really bothered me. Encouraging the woman to end the relationship, and helping her get out of the relationship, should be the only repsonses to an abusive situation. Oh, but I forgot...BC solves EVERY problem!