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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

‘Labels protect us’: Olivia Nervo wants reproductive coercion to be a standalone offence – she is not alone

Olivia Nervo, a woman with long blond hair dressed in a black dress
When Olivia Nervo agreed to start a family with her partner she believed she was in ‘in a monogamous, committed relationship leading to a future’. Photograph: Olivia Nervo

When the Grammy award winning songwriter, Olivia Nervo, agreed to start a family with her partner she believed she was in “a monogamous, committed relationship leading to a future”, and had never heard of reproductive coercion.

Her world came crashing down when she was six months pregnant and she found out that her partner was in a relationship with another woman who was also pregnant, and with whom he already had a child.

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