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Running head: MARGINALIZED WOMEN 1 Marginalized Women with a Past Sexual Assault Chamberlain University NR602: Primary Care of the Childbearing and Childrearing Family Practicum MARGINALIZED WOMEN... 2 Every day hundreds of people in the United States are affected by sexual assault. What is sexual assault? Sexual assault is define as when a person is forced to engage in sexual act, or a person is touched, unwantedly kissed, or raped by other person. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (2014), states that sexual assault is a crime of violence and aggression, incorporating variety of sexual activities that ranges from sexual coercion to contact abuse such as unwanted kissing, fondling, or touching to rape. Reproductive-aged victims of sexual assault are at risk of unintended pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, and mental health conditions, including posttraumatic stress disorder. Unlike other violent crimes that are captured on video and replayed continuously by the media, victims of sexual assault replay violent acts committed against them in their mind’s eye while suffering alone in silence. Sexual assault against women is an ongoing issue around the world. Healthcare providers should take an active role in preventing, educating and treating victims of sexual assault. It is estimated that 1.3 million rapes against women occur annually. One out of every six American women has been a victim of attempted or completed rape in her lifetime [RAInd]. More than 60% of sexual assaults are not reported to authorities, and approximately 99% of rapists will never see the inside of a jail cell for a specific rape [Ten17]. In Pennsylvania, in 2015, there were 4,266 rapes reported to police [Pen15]. That’s an average of 12 rapes every day, or one rape every two hours and three minutes. This number represents an increase of 14.7% from the prior year. The rape rate is 33.3 per 100,000 population. This places Pennsylvania right in the middle of all the states, with Alaska having the highest rape rate at 79.7 per 100,000. The numbers, while staggering, pale in comparison to global estimates of sexual violence again women. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that one in three women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual [Show More]

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