Have You Been a Victim of Birth Control Sabotage?
The Family Violence Prevention Fund, a national anti-violence organization, is investigating the prevalence of "birth control sabotage:" when a man, in an attempt to control his partner, tampers with or steals her method of birth control in an attempt to undermine her pregnancy prevention. The National Women's Health Network explains,
To get a better understanding of how prevalent common birth control sabotage is and what has happened to girls and women who have gone through it, the Family Violence Prevention Fund is searching for girls and women who have experienced birth control sabotage (or had a partner who tried to control their reproductive decision-making in any way) who are willing to speak out about the experience in a safe space and get help. Women who are comfortable sharing their experiences can email safewomenstories@gmail.com, and those who prefer to talk with someone by phone, should send an email to set up a conversation.
"According to a recent study of girls with a history of abusive relationships, birth control sabotage is one of the tools that abusers use to maintain control of their partners. A quarter of teenage girls in this small study conducted in poor neighborhoods in Boston reported that their abusive partners actively tried to get them pregnant, undermining their efforts to use condoms and other forms of birth control to prevent pregnancy and making explicit statements about wanting the girls to become pregnant. Abusers commit birth control sabotage in different ways, including purposely poked holes in condoms and flushing birth control pills down the toilet."
To get a better understanding of how prevalent common birth control sabotage is and what has happened to girls and women who have gone through it, the Family Violence Prevention Fund is searching for girls and women who have experienced birth control sabotage (or had a partner who tried to control their reproductive decision-making in any way) who are willing to speak out about the experience in a safe space and get help. Women who are comfortable sharing their experiences can email safewomenstories@gmail.com, and those who prefer to talk with someone by phone, should send an email to set up a conversation.
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"birth control sabotage" is also when a woman lies to her boyfriend about being on the pill or pokes holes in condoms etc to get pregnant. In fact more often than not it IS the woman who does this to her boyfriend/husband. It can be about control or an attempt to save a not-so-good relationship, or it can simply be the woman deeply desires a baby with the one she loves and he is unwilling to give her what she wants. I was the latter in my case and I know plenty other women who have done it out of the same reason. Do I condone it? No. Do I feel guilty sometimes? Yes. But I understand why I and others have done it.
birth control sabotage? same situation happened to my son.We took a girl in because she said her homelife was bad. She just started dating him. She had no job and I just thought that she needed someone to give her a chance. She told him she was on birth control and two months dating she ended up preg. that's when she told him she lied. She hacked into his computer and tried to sabotage that so the police are involved now. She did alot of terrible things on the comp that I could never imagine doing. It all came out at once. She told him she wanted him to get her preg so he would have to stay with her and take care of her. After visiting her family, I came to find out that also her father is on the megans law list. She has admitted doing alot of comp wrong doings to other guys she dated now. She should have come with a warning lable. She hasn't seen a dr. and now she has told a few people including me that the child isn't his. So where do we go from here? So what do the nice guys do?
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