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- Title: Violence Against Women and Unintended Pregnancy: Building Connections
- Author : Elizabeth Miller
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
Description
About 10 years ago, while providing clinical care in a community-based clinic for adolescents affiliated with our teaching hospital, I saw a 15-year-old young woman who requested a pregnancy test. Her pregnancy test was negative. Did she want to be pregnant? No. Was she using birth control? No. Assuming that she didn't know about all the ways to prevent pregnancy, I efficiently listed a menu of birth control options for her. Cursorily, I asked whether she felt safe in her relationship and whether her boyfriend was willing to use condoms. She shrugged, "Yeah, whatever." I handed the young woman a brown bag full of condoms and encouraged her to return later, when she had decided what birth control method would work best for her. Two weeks later, I learned that she was in our hospital's emergency room with a head injury resulting from having been pushed down the stairs by her boyfriend. She survived, but had a rocky course with depression and suicide attempts, further complicated by her mother's blaming her for the situation: "You picked him, it's your own fault."
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