Addressing reproductive coercion [Round 2]

The draft white paper takes a comprehensive approach, informed by the large number of submissions Marie Stopes Australia received from organisations with differing and complementary expertise. As a result, there is now an opportunity to refine the key themes and messages of the white paper, in order to maximise its impact and usefulness both to service providers and policy makers.

This document aims to briefly highlight what Women’s Health Victoria sees as the key considerations or principles which it believes should be given clearer prominence in the final version of the white paper. These include:

• The need for a stronger emphasis on reproductive coercion as a form of intimate partner violence
• The opportunity and need for reproductive coercion to be integrated into local violence against women and primary prevention strategies
• Clearer articulation of the gendered nature of reproductive coercion

Finally, some specific recommendations for additional content have been included.

More about the resulting white paper produced by Marie Stopes Australia can be found here