Nonetheless, I feel an inquiry into potential legal responses to stealthing would be incomplete without any consideration of criminal law--especially since not all victim-survivors share my politics.
To the extent that the proposed stealthing tort would seek, in part, to address pregnancy-related harms, however, there is no reason to think that additional punishment will be ineffectual.
At its best, such a law would clearly respond to and affirm the harm victims report by making clear that "stealthing" doesn't just "feel violent"--it is.
(6) Others have written about stealthing in the context of a broader trend of what the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists describes as "active interference [by one partner] with [the other] partner's contraceptive methods in an attempt to promote pregnancy," known as "birth control sabotage." Am.
(17) See, e.g., The Experience Project, supra note 5; Mark Bentson, Top 10 Stealthing Tips, I Blast Inside, http://iblastinside.com/2012/06/top-10-stealthing-tips/ [http://perma.cc/K79M-2FM2] (last visited Feb.