OB-GYNs are being cautioned to look for signs that their patients are being pressured into having a baby by their partners trying to sabotage their contraception. "Most OB/GYNs are probably unfamiliar with sexual and reproductive coercion as an entity and probably don't ask about it," Dr. Eve Espey, chairwoman of the ACOG's Committee on Health Care for Underserved Women, said to HealthDay. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) issued new guidelines for doctors to detect and recognize reproductive "coercion" in the February 2012 issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology
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