Posted on 12/10/2015 4:35:43 PM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Palestinian Women Turn To Israel For Abortions, Recount Shock Stories Of Attempting To Kill Fetuses Themselves
TEL AVIV – An article in Foreign Policy magazine states that 40 percent of women in the West Bank have had abortions even though the Palestinian leadership has outlawed it. Many of the women turn to Israel in order to help them avoid the brutal at-home abortion methods they are forced to use, often to prevent themselves from becoming victims of “honor killings.â€
A 2007 study conducted by the Palestinian Family Planning and Protection Association (PFPPA) and the U.N. Palestinian relief agency UNRWA found that approximately 40 percent of Palestinian women in the West Bank had undergone an abortion, and 26 percent of those abortions were conducted through unsafe, at-home methods.
More and more Palestinian women are turning to at-home abortion methods, including throwing themselves down staircases and inserting sharp instruments into their bodies. One woman interviewed by Foreign Policy magazine was 14-years-old when she was impregnated by her 32-year-old cousin. She jumped off a nine-foot wall belly first and, despite nearly dying, was told by her doctor that she would have to deliver her dead fetus at home because abortion is illegal in the Palestinian territories.
The article states that even though abortion is illegal in most of the Middle East, what sets Palestinian women apart is that they live in such close proximity to Israel, a country where abortion is completely legal, easily accessible, and even government-funded.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I don’t know which is more barbaric,the abortions or the society that drives the women to seek one.
On top of that abortion being legal in Israel. I would figure that the very people who survived the Holocaust would be the last people in the world to legalize abortion but no, they have had it legal for quite a while now.
The NYT once profiled a Jewish obstetrician who had survived one of the death camps. There, she performed abortions because pregnant women were sent to the gas chamber. And afterward, in every delivery, she would say, God, you owe me a living baby.
thank you
If I were her, I’d ask God for two living babies at every birth!! Maybe that is asking two too much? What a terrible position to be put in. Both for her and the women!
It’ll be forty years in 2016. Forty days/years is a common time span in the Old Testament.
http://www.ecclesia.org/truth/40.html
Oh, my holy God, what horrible choices that poor woman had to make!
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