To all,

In case you were thinking its safe to go out.

A classic example of how induction (as opposed to deduction) is used to persecute.

No wonder so many think domestic violence is a problem only for women perpetrated by men !!

Could recognising that this is not true - that DV affects both genders equally (lets not worry about the slightly increased occurrence of female perpetrators) be a better way of tacking the problem?

Now I see why my letters get knocked back

Regards,
Simon
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Abortion linked to domestic violence, study finds

Dewi Cooke
April 7, 2007

The Age

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/abortion-linked-to-domestic-violence-study-finds/2007/04/06/1175366479425.html

THE long-lasting impact of violent relationships on women has been illustrated in research showing that young women abused by their partners are more than twice as likely to have an abortion as those who have not.

The data analysis, by La Trobe University researchers Angela Taft and Lyndsey Watson, found that partner violence is the most powerful factor in whether a young woman decides to terminate an unwanted pregnancy.

Published in this week's Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, the study also found women from poorer backgrounds were more likely to terminate their pregnancies.

"We didn't know what would come out but certainly it doesn't surprise us and people who are interested in the termination issue aren't aware of what a strong role (violence) plays," Dr Taft said.

The researchers found that women who reported recent violence of any kind were likely to have reported a termination, while women who had had a violent partner at some stage of their lives had significantly higher odds of having had an abortion.

Dr Taft said reducing violence against women was the key to reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies. "People providing pregnancy counselling and abortion providers should be asking about abuse, but I think that we see this as an issue of unwanted pregnancies and as I'm a public health researcher my argument would be there should be a sexual and reproductive health strategy at a national level with a focus on reducing unwanted pregnancies," she said.

"There's a whole raft of things that you'd want to consider there but certainly reducing violence against women should be a part of it."

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