We know that all of the oppressive acts that women suffer have to be taken into consideration if we want to help them take steps to protect themselves. It is also essential to take the particular repercussions that certain decisions or certain programs may have for them into account. We said earlier that if we take the approach of criminalizing coercive control, as we hope, consideration will have to be given to the situations of Indigenous women, who are over-represented among women who are incarcerated and are themselves accused of using violence, when, in many cases, they were only defending themselves. That will have to be taken into consideration, and an intersectional perspective applied.
