As Texas looks to prosecute women who have abortions--even out of state, remember it has over 3,500 untested rape kits. That's how you know this is a war on women.

Anytime that guns are involved in an abusive relationship, the level of danger increases drastically. It's vital that you take steps to create a safety plan. Learn how: bit.ly/3W19iNH #EndDV #IPV #NoMore #Firearms #gunviolence #gunviolenceawareness #safetyplan

Any loss of life is heartbreaking. So may we one day live in a world where we dedicate the same resources and care to missing murdered indigenous women and migrants lost at sea as we do for missing billionaires. #titanicsub #mmiw #migrants #mmiwg #titanic

We will never stop believing black women. And may our communities and media continue to mobilize for any black woman or girl who goes missing as it did for Carlee Russell.

13-24 is very high risk age for experiencing violence and abuse in a romantic relationship. Research has found that 21% of 13 year old girls have already experienced physical violence from a boyfriend 😟 Domestic violence and abuse happens in young people's relationships too.

I wonder why powerful men don’t get asked to take their clothes off for GQ Magazine covers? Men are demonstrating power using wealth and authority (suits, ties, serious body language), whereas powerful and wealthy women are portrayed as sexy, infantilised, and playful.

watching the amber heard v. johnny depp docuseries on netflix and watching people make memes out of videos of this man literally terrorizing this woman is wild af

For some survivors, a hidden safety phone can save a life. This test alert may accidentally reveal survivors' safety phones. 🔕To avoid that, please completely turn off any hidden smart devices and pay-as-you-go phones.

I think about this way more than I think about the Roman Empire.

It’s utterly awful that research I read shows that more often than not children will be present when their mother is killed. These homicides are totally selfish and planned with no regard for children. Yet we still fail to see how dangerous these abusers are.

If the perpetrator is famous, add to this list 'use the media and employ PR professionals to create a smear campaign to make the public distrust, dislike and turn against the victim.'

Coercive Control is not a relationship gone awry; it is an assault from Day One. It is a pattern of behavior used by a perpetrator to assume dominance and control of a targeted victim in the context of IPV. Coercive Control is a human rights violation, a liberty crime and 1/

Coercive control is the creation of a system, typically one filled with fear, mistrust, exhaustion, double standards. Perpetrators of #coercivecontrol don't parent, they counter-parent, they undermine and sabotage the relationship the child has with the protective parent.

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Crystal Justice, Chief Externals Affairs Office for the Hotline spoke recently with HuffPost. “This [case] is essentially putting firearms into the hands of abusive partners and that equation means lethality for survivors." bit.ly/435IeAM #ReproductiveCoercion

Supreme Court stood 8-1 with survivors and victims of gun violence, in United States v. Rahimi, overturning the Fifth Circuit and upholding the constitutionality of firearm removal in cases with a domestic violence protection order. Survivors are safer because of this decision.

Today SCOTUS made the cruel and heartless decision to criminalize homelessness in the case of City of Grants Pass, Ore. v. Johnson. We REJECT this decision and demand protections for survivors and people experiencing homelessness.

Jennifer Gerson 19thnews We’re committed to building a world where everyone has dignity, choice, and stability. Read NHLP’s, Sexual Violence Law Center,NNEDV, @OregonCoalition, Freedom Network USA statement here: nhlp.org/press-release/…