The figure is based on a survey of about 1,000 women in the United Kingdom. The women did not confirm whether they got an abortion and weren’t asked to specify the source of the coercion. The U.K.

While sexual assault can take on many different forms, the one thing that remains the same is that assault is never a survivor's fault — including instances in which assault occurs in a relationship.

While emotional abuse can be obvious and overt, it can also be more covert—meaning it's much more likely to go undetected, at least for a while. In a subtly abusive relationship, the abusive partner ...

With the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, much of the news coverage has focused on whether or not states with so-called “trigger” laws outlawing abortion make exceptions in cases of ...

Security scholars have long recognized that compellence/coercion is more difficult to achieve than deterrence. (Although both deterrence and compellence require coercion, coercion is commonly used ...