Jivin J’s Life Links 7-21-10
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
Human rights advocates and doctors say autocratic President Islam Karimov this year ramped up a sterilization campaign he initiated in the late 1990s. In a decree issued in February, the Health Ministry ordered all medical facilities to “strengthen control over the medical examination of women of childbearing age.”
The decree also said that “surgical contraception should be provided free of charge” to women who volunteer for the procedure.
It did not specifically mandate sterilizations, but critics allege that doctors have come under direct pressure from the government to perform them: “The order comes from the very top,” said Khaitboy Yakubov, head of the Najot human rights group in Uzbekistan.
[Photo via armenians.net]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Oh, lovely. So they don’t think they’re viable, therefore they can abort them–but if they’re deemed non-viable, they receive no medical care. Hmm. Nothing like stacking the deck against a desperately fragile human being.
Posted by: ycw at July 21, 2010 2:18 PM
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No one is viable before a just and angry God without the grace of Christ.