Several bills in Massachusetts would allow domestic violence victims to seek protection orders for additional reasons like name calling, financial control, technological abuse and isolation.
Sarah Ortiz is all too familiar with domestic violence.
"Controlling where you go. Controlling who you speak to. Going through your phone to see who you've been speaking to. Going through emails. Changing passwords," she ticked off."That coercive control was my life. I checked off every single part without knowing." Lisa Fontes is a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, who has written a book about this kind of abuse.
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