PSA Domestic Violence Commercial

On average more than three women a day are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends in the United States. In 2005, 1,181 women were murdered by an intimate partner. http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/intimate/ipv.htm.

In 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published data collected in 2005 that finds that women experience two million injuries from intimate partner violence each year. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5705a1.htm.

Nearly one in four women in the United States reports experiencing violence by a current or former spouse or boyfriend at some point in her life. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5705a1.htm

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