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Intimate partner violence affects nearly one in four U.S. women. To explore the associations between physical or sexual abuse, unintended pregnancy, and reproductive control (i.e., birth-control sabotage or pregnancy coercion), investigators analyzed survey data from 1278 women (age range, 16–29) who visited family planning clinics in California. A woman was considered to have experienced pregnancy coercion if she reported that she had ever concealed her contraceptive use, that a male partner had ever forbidden her to use contraceptives, had threatened to leave her or impregnate someone else unless she conceived, had hurt her physically for not agreeing to conceive, or had tried to force or pressure her to become pregnant. Birth-control sab…