The phrase "woman hostage" refers to a woman who is forcibly held captive by someone, usually as a means to control or manipulate others into doing something against their will. Full definition
«Accidents happen, coercion happens, and there is a public - health imperative not to hold women hostage by hampering them from timely access to postcoital contraception.» (discovermagazine.com)
Multimillionaire commodities trader Adam Haber, who's trying to buy a State Senate seat, raised school taxes, opposed the property tax cap, and supports holding legislation ensuring equal pay for women hostage so that non-doctors can perform late term / partial birth abortions. (newsday.com)
Such as Scott Lloyd, director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, who held an immigrant woman hostage in an attempt to block her constitutional right to obtain an abortion? (plannedparenthoodaction.org)