Sexual violence and Pregnancy

Facts and Stats

• Over 3 million women have experienced pregnancy resulting from rape during their lifetime.
  • 28% experienced a sexually transmitted disease
  • 66% were injured and 80% were fearful or concerned for their safety
• Approximately 5 million have experienced pregnancy resulting from sexual coercion during their lifetime.
  • 35% experienced a sexually transmitted disease
• Non-Hispanic multiracial women experience higher rates of rape, sexual coercion, or both compared with non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Black, and Hispanic women.
• Women raped by a current or former intimate partner were more likely to report rape-related pregnancy (26%) than those raped by a stranger (6.9%) or an acquaintance (5.2%).
  • 30% of the women who were raped by an intimate partner also experienced reproductive coercion from the same person.
  • 20% reported that their partner tried to make them pregnant when they didn’t want to or tried to stop them from using birth control.
  • ~23% said their partner refused to use a condom.

Source- CDC

• To learn more about Intimate partner violence, click here.
• To learn more about birth control and contraception, click here.
• To learn more about pregnancy and option, click here.
• To learn more about sexually transmitted infections, click here.