Forced abortion Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==United States== === Forced abortion in sex trafficking === In a series of focus groups conducted around the United States by anti-trafficking activist [[Laura Lederer]] in 2014, over 25% of survivors of [[Sex trafficking in the United States|domestic sex trafficking]] who responded to the question reported that they had been forced to have an abortion.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Lederer|first1=Laura|title=Examining H.R. 5411, the Trafficking Awareness Training for Health Care Act of 2014|journal=US House of Representatives, Energy and Commerce Committee, Witness Hearings|date=11 September 2014|url=http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF14/20140911/102647/HHRG-113-IF14-Wstate-LedererL-20140911.pdf|access-date=1 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Lederer|first1=Laura|last2=Wetzel|first2=Christopher A.|title=The health consequences of sex trafficking and their implications for identifying victims in healthcare facilities|journal=Annals Health|date=2014|volume=23|page=61|url=https://www.icmec.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Health-Consequences-of-Sex-Trafficking-and-Implications-for-Identifying-Victims-Lederer.pdf|access-date=1 August 2017}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page