Newsweek initially accepted "What Battery Really Is" for publication, but then declined to publish the account at the request of their attorney, according to Dworkin, arguing that she needed either to publish anonymously "to protect the identity of the batterer" and remove references to specific injuries, or to provide "medical records, police records, a written statement from a doctor who had seen the injuries".
Newsweek inicialmente aceptou publicar «What Battery Really Is», mais logo se negou a publicar o informe a petición do seu avogado, segundo Dworkin, argumentando que ela necesitaba publicalo anonimamente «para protexer a identidade do agresor» e retirar as referencias a lesións específicas, ou, pola contra, achegar «rexistros médicos, policiais e unha declaración escrita dun médico que vise as lesións».