{"id":17994,"date":"2013-01-29T07:49:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T15:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=17994"},"modified":"2013-01-29T07:50:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T15:50:22","slug":"israel-forced-birth-control-on-ethiopian-women-without-their-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/29\/israel-forced-birth-control-on-ethiopian-women-without-their-consent\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Forced Birth Control on Ethiopian Women Without Their Consent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/israel-gave-birth-control-to-ethiopian-jews-without-their-consent-8468800.html\"><em>The Independent<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Israel has admitted for the first time that it has been giving Ethiopian Jewish immigrants birth-control injections, often without their knowledge or consent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/news\/national\/israel-admits-ethiopian-women-were-given-birth-control-shots.premium-1.496519\">According to Haaretz<\/a>, &#8220;while the women were still in transit camps in Ethiopia they were sometimes intimidated or threatened into taking the injection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey told us they are inoculations,\u201d said one of the women interviewed. \u201cThey told us people who frequently give birth suffer. We took it every three months. We said we didn\u2019t want to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We said we won&#8217;t have the shot,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/01\/28\/ethiopian-women-israel-birth-control-shots_n_2567016.html\">recounted<\/a> another woman. &#8220;They told us, if you don&#8217;t you won&#8217;t go to Israel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The injections given to Ethiopian women are part and parcel of the overall Israeli attitude toward this wave of immigrants,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/opinion\/an-inconveivable-crime.premium-1.484110\">said<\/a> one Haaretz Op-Ed writer.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/justin\/2013\/01\/06\/israels-anti-black-pogrom\/\">Justin Raimondo&#8217;s recent column<\/a> on Israel&#8217;s treatment of black Jewish immigrants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Independent: Israel has admitted for the first time that it has been giving Ethiopian Jewish immigrants birth-control injections, often without their knowledge or consent. According to Haaretz, &#8220;while the women were still in transit camps in Ethiopia they were sometimes intimidated or threatened into taking the injection.&#8221; \u201cThey told us they are inoculations,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-17994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17996,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17994\/revisions\/17996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17994"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}