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This story reeks of racism, paternalism and arrogance. ItÂ’s a story to be ashamed of,' Gabai concluded.
"Clearly, more digging needs to be done to get to the bottom of this story. What remains to be seen is whether or not Gabai has actually blown the lid off it. Gabai and her bosses obviously care about the issue — but will enough other Israelis and Jews?
"MK Ilan Gilon (Meretz), for one, does care. Following the airing of GabaiÂ’s report, he submitted an official request to IsraelÂ’s attorney general Yehuda Weinstein for the launching of a criminal investigation.
"Gilon emphasized that the women were exposed to drug and hormone related side effects, of which they were not made aware. 'It cannot be that the serious news of this invasive interference with the rights of Ethiopian immigrant womenÂ’s control over their own bodies will go without redress,' he wrote."
Shocking Decline in Ethiopian Israeli Birthrate
Gee...racism, paternalism, and arrogance, sounds like the "Chosen People", to me.
that is because you are stupid-----and OBVIOUSLY know nothing about the social issues
related to contraception I can understand the issues----I was a volunteer with "PLANNED PARENTHOOD" when that organization first opened its doors. I am truly
amused with the statement that some of the "ETHIOPIAN WOMEN" did not fully
understand the effects of DEPOPROVERA ------- I got news-----ask any woman in the
USA who takes birth control pills to DESCRIBE HOW THEY WORK AND ALL THE POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS. as a young woman-----a kindly doctor tried to treat a little issue I had with BIRTH CONTROL PILLS------it was a little hormonal manipulation------he INFORMED ME that the pills WOULD NOT PREVENT PREGNANCY-----lol----I was 15 ---so the guy BEING PATERNALISTIC decided it would be best if I did not think I was on birth control pills should I have sued? more news-----doctors do act in a PATERNALISTIC way with naive patients. Now as an experiment----ask your aged auntie what medicines she takes and then to DESCRIBE THE ACTUAL PHYSIOLOGIC EFFECTS OF ALL HER MEDS
now as regards DEPOPROVERA----as I recall----it is a PROGESTIN----now you tell me
how progestins prevent pregnancy------and how a single intramuscular shot can do it for
months. you expect an ethiopian woman to KNOW? People stand outside of planned
parenthood clinics to CONVINCE people that those birth control pills you take are GOING TO KILL you-------and abortions send you to hell. Contraception is a very HOT ISSUE
all over the world and claiming RACIST agendas ---was----and in some quarters still is ----quite an issue in the USA too.-----even today
My mother-in-law----was a naieve lady------she did know that the paternalistic
doctor who inserted the IUD after she gave birth to her tenth---did it to prevent
further pregnancies-----but I have no doubt that she did not understand how the thing
ACTUALLY WORKED and I have no doubt that the doctor did not try to EXPLAIN IT TO HER . She was born in a country really CLOSE TO ETHIOPIA----with an educational system ----just as SOPHISTICATED