Season 3 Episode 4: Reproductive Coercion

Part of a perpetrator’s pattern of coercive control, reproductive coercion is a common and powerful tool that is used to entrap and control victims using pregnancy and children. Forcing women to become pregnant and maintain a pregnancy has long-term implications for women and children’s lives. Not only do adult survivors suffer the consequences, but children are used as pawns. In this way, reproductive control can be thought of as a form of child abuse and neglect. In many instances, do...