Reproductive Abuse in the Context of Clergy Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church

被引:4
作者
Reisinger, Doris [1 ]
机构
[1] Goethe Univ Frankfurt Main, Dept Catholic Theol, D-60323 Frankfurt, Germany
关键词
reproductive abuse; reproductive justice; sexual abuse of adults; sexual abuse of minors; clergy sex abuse; coerced adoption; abortion; clericalism; misogyny; HUMAN-RIGHTS; WOMEN; EXPERIENCES;
D O I
10.3390/rel13030198
中图分类号
B9 [宗教];
学科分类号
010107 ;
摘要
In a significant number of cases, clerical sex offenders impregnate their victims and force them into hiding, abortion, or adoption. This phenomenon is referred to in this paper as reproductive abuse. Clearly, most victims of reproductive abuse are adults, but even among minor victims of clerical child abuse, between 1 and 10 percent may have experienced reproductive abuse. On the basis of pertinent studies, this paper explores archival material on several dozen allegations of reproductive abuse in the context of clergy sexual abuse of minors in the US Catholic Church. Besides some tentative estimates of the general frequency of the phenomenon, this paper offers a distinction of three different types of reproductive abuse and an analysis of the interplay of clericalist and secular misogyny, which appears to be largely responsible for the silencing of victims as well as for the impunity of perpetrators and leads to the invisibility of this phenomenon, despite the high importance attributed to reproductive issues in the Catholic context.
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