article on reproductive coersion
Jan. 26th, 2010 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikhttp://www.newsweek.com/id/232542
It's strange, considering how much airtime women deceiving their partners about their fertility status and getting pregnant on purpose* gets, that I've heard very little about the reverse. This presents it as being fairly common.
* Which does happen. And is pretty awful. Though, as with many of these things, one has to wonder how much its prevalence is overstated, as it falls into some pretty standard misogynist screeds. And then there is that question about cooperation - birth control is not, after all, solely the responsibility of people with uteruses, and people do have a responsibility for their own fertility.
It's strange, considering how much airtime women deceiving their partners about their fertility status and getting pregnant on purpose* gets, that I've heard very little about the reverse. This presents it as being fairly common.
* Which does happen. And is pretty awful. Though, as with many of these things, one has to wonder how much its prevalence is overstated, as it falls into some pretty standard misogynist screeds. And then there is that question about cooperation - birth control is not, after all, solely the responsibility of people with uteruses, and people do have a responsibility for their own fertility.
