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Health Consequences

            There are several health consequences resulting from sexual violence against women. Women who are attacked may be physically beaten or killed during the attack, or possibly after by family depending on where they reside and if that area considers rape to be a blow to the family’s honor. Women can contract HIV and other forms of STDs, and have to deal with unplanned and unwanted pregnancies. Healthcare for rape victims depends on the healthcare offered in their region. If a woman is raped, she then has to deal with the aftereffects, which can be life threatening, and her access to a women’s clinic or victim’s services depends on her location. So women are left to their own devices and must deal with the aftereffects without outside services. How such a situation can be dealt with ties in greatly to the “politics of location” (Rich, p. 47) meaning the privilege or inequalities women experience based on their location.
 
Citation
Freedman, Estelle B., and Janet Lee. "The Global Stage and the Politics of Location." Women's Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings. Ed. Susan Shaw. 4th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2009. 47. Print.

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