Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Address correspondence to: Denise V. DDAngelo cdc. Sexual violence is a major public health problem in the U. The current study presents more recent estimates of rape and sexual coercion-related pregnancy and examines prevalence by demographic characteristics.
The analysis, conducted in , examined lifetime experience of rape-related pregnancy, sexual coercion-related pregnancy, or both among U. One in 20 women in the U. Non-Hispanic Multiracial women experienced a higher prevalence of all three outcomes compared with non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Black, and Hispanic women. Pregnancy as a consequence of rape or sexual coercion is experienced by an estimated six million U.
Prevention efforts may include healthcare screenings to identify violence exposure and use of evidence-based prevention approaches to reduce sexual violence. S exual violence victimization is an urgent public health problem in the U. There is little scholarship on the intersection of rape or sexual coercion and pregnancy using population-based samples.
Holmes et al. The current study advances the knowledge about the prevalence of experiencing rape-related pregnancy and sexual coercion-related pregnancy, which has not been examined before, in important ways by building on the recent work of Basile et al. Other impacts of these types of violence were also examined. Taken together, the more recent data, the addition of sexual coercion-related pregnancy, and additional contextual information can help inform violence prevention activities and efforts to ensure access to reproductive healthcare services for survivors of sexual violence.
The response rate was 7. Gender male, female, transgender was self-reported on the survey. Given the focus of this study and the small number of transgender individuals, only data from respondents who indicated that their gender was female were examined, and these individuals are referred to as women or female victims to align with previous NISVS reports. In a previous NISVS publication on sexual violence, estimates of pregnancy for sexual coercion included all female victims of vaginal rape and sexual coercion regardless of the sex of the perpetrator.
