Posted on 01/31/2013 6:57:28 PM PST by Morgana
JERUSALEM, January 31, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) - After a series of back and forth accusations and denials among government agencies, the Israeli Health Ministry has for the first time acknowledged that it has been injecting Ethiopian immigrants who are religiously Jewish with the dangerous contraceptive Depo-Provera without their consent.
The allegation that the women were coerced into accepting the shot was denied at first by both the Joint Distribution Committee, which runs the clinics at the transit camps, and by the Health Ministry. The practice has been said to be going on for years.
Ethiopian Jews accounted for 57 percent of Depo-Provera users in Israel, although they constitute a miniscule percentage of the population.
According to a Haaretz report, women in transit camps in Ethiopia waiting to emigrate to Israel were either told the birth control injection was mandatory, or that the injection was simply for immunization.
"We said we won't have the shot," one woman told the Israeli newspaper. "They told us, if you don't, you won't go to Israel. And also you won't be allowed into the Joint (American Joint Distribution Committee) office, you won't get aid or medical care."
"We were afraid," recounted Emawayish, who immigrated from Ethiopia eight years ago. "We didn't have a choice. Without them and their aid we couldn't leave there. So, we accepted the injection. It was only with their permission that we were allowed to leave."
“They told us they are inoculations,” said another women interviewed for the investigative report. “They told us people who frequently give birth suffer. We took it every three months. We said we didn’t want to.”
"We believe it is a method of reducing the number of births in a community that is black and mostly poor," Hedva Eyal, who wrote the report admitting the eugenic practice. In recent years, Israeli schools have denied Ethiopian children enrollment in schools, and the government has engaged in mass deportations of African immigrants, to preserve "the Jewish character of the state." Ethiopians also have more than three-times the poverty rate of other Israelis.
The situation came to light following an investigative report aired in early December on the Israel Educational Television program "Vacuum."
The Jewish Agency, which is responsible for Jewish immigration from abroad, distanced itself from the accusations saying that "while the JA has never held family planning workshops for this group in Ethiopia or at immigrant absorption centers in Israel, the immigrant transit camp in Gondar, as the investigation noted, was previously operated by other agencies."
However, earlier this week, a letter from Health Ministry Director General Prof. Roni Gamzu instructed the health and immigration organizations to stop giving immigrant women the dangerous drug.
According to Haaretz, Gamzu’s letter instructs all gynecologists in the HMOs "not to renew prescriptions for Depo-Provera for women of Ethiopian origin if for any reason there is concern that they might not understand the ramifications of the treatment.”
Gamzu also told doctors they should have an interpreter on hand if a language problem arises.
Sharona Eliahu-Chai of the Association of Civil Rights in Israel, who as a representative of several women’s rights and Ethiopian immigrants’ groups had demanded that the injections cease and that an investigation be launched, applauded Gamzu’s directive.
"Findings from investigations into the use of Depo-Provera are extremely worrisome, raising concerns of harmful health policies with racist implications in violation of medical ethics. The Ministry of Health’s director-general was right to act quickly and put forth new guidelines,” Eliahu-Chai said.
Depo-Provera has been at the forefront of foreign-funded birth control programs in the developing world.
Last year Melinda Gates, wife of billionaire tech mogul Bill Gates, said that she intends to spend billions of dollars on a global campaign to promote the use of artificial birth control, highlighting Depo-Provera as her abortifacient contraceptive of choice.
The hormonal contraceptive causes abortions by preventing implantation of the newly-conceived human life in the uterine wall.
Numerous studies have linked the controversial drug with bone loss (osteoporosis), increased risk of blood clots, breast cancer, cervical cancer, increased herpes susceptibility, heart disease, memory loss, and, by compromising a woman's immune system, increases the risk of infection from STDs, and contributes to the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Even now; the open borders 'invitation' to uneducated illegals; does not come from 'caring hearts' wishing to eliminate hard times. It is embedded in the desire to hold onto power; enhance power; and the need for control; in those individuals who now 'have' it; and want to insure; that they forever have it.
A certain irony in that, those who have brought this Ethiopian refugee issue to the 'fore'; who are trying to ante up, ill will against Israel; are the same, who carry the log of discrimination in their own eye; and by Government policy; ideology; gladly invite and promote 'dependence' in targeted populations in our Country; by their fashioning 'easy time/good time' promises; that only, guarantee 'hard times' for those they make pretense of helping.
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CAMERA has done a pretty good discussion of the coverage, and Haaertz has blamed the coersion angle as on distorted coverage in the world press, but you'll have to pay them to read it. That the birth rate amongst Ethopians might decline doesn't strike me as unusual, that's a not uncommon result of better medical care resulting in lower child mortality, and greater relative affluence. Coersion is obviously wrong, but doesn't seem to me to be anything more than speculation based on lower birth rates in Israel.
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CAMERA has done a pretty good discussion of the coverage, and Haaertz has blamed the coersion angle as on distorted coverage in the world press, but you'll have to pay them to read it. That the birth rate amongst Ethopians might decline doesn't strike me as unusual, that's a not uncommon result of better medical care resulting in lower child mortality, and greater relative affluence. Coersion is obviously wrong, but doesn't seem to me to be anything more than speculation based on lower birth rates in Israel.
Not this crap again. This was posted about a week ago and buried in there was the source from Israel. A couple of women complained they didn’t understand what medicine they were getting due to language difficulties. There was no ‘forced’ medicine. This has been twisted and spread by anti-semite, pro-Palestine pages.
Have you seen the previews for the movie Menschen? (right from your poster) A friend is one of the directors.
http://www.menschenthemovie.com/
The preview alone will make your screen go blurry.
The Left is smearing Israel and undermining the rights of Ethiopian women. And you fell for the lie.
The reality is that Israeli doctors provided birth control (not my favored method) to married adult women without the knowledge or approval of their husbands.
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2013/01/did-israelis-force-contraception-on.html
Israeli Outlets Foment Demonization With Sloppy Journalism
http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=55&x_article=2395
Interesting ... I’ll look for it, probably in RedBox.
Thank you, Piranha. It’s disappointing that even at FR, some people will reflexively jump on the “Evil Jooooooooooz!” bandwagon.
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I call BS.
Thanks Piranha
Bill and Melinda Gates, June 2009
Gates married Melinda French on January 1, 1994. They have three children: daughters Jennifer Katharine (b. 1996) and Phoebe Adele (b. 2002) and son Rory John (b. 1999).
Well, isn't that special. You first, bish.
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