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Every nine seconds, a husband physically abuses his wife in the U.S. On average, 12% of marriages will involve some sort of domestic violence. The injury done to women because of domestic violence greatly surpasses injury done by any other violent crime or car accidents combined. Medical expenses to care for the abused cost $3 to $5 billion dollars a year. Obviously, domestic violence is a prevalent and costly crime that is on the rise.A It should be stopped. However, at what cost? Or for that matter, how? When do the abused gain the right to cause harm to the abuser? Or do they have this right at all? In this paper, I will focus on domestic violence and whether the use of deadly force is ever justified. Please note that domestic abuse is not limited to only relations between spouses.B It includes children, friends, and other family members. To narrow my scope in this paper, I will focus on women as the abused in particular since the majority of domestic......

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