Israel forces birth control on Ethiopian Jews

Salon.com; Wisdom Quarterly

Yeah, we did it, but it was this whole big crazy thing, y'know how it is? - Yeah, sure.

Ethiopian Jews who emigrate to Israel receive a surprise -- sterilization (wiki/salon.com)

 

Sorry, buddy, but Israel comes first.

Israel has admitted that it has been giving Jewish Ethiopian immigrants birth control injections, according to a report in Haaretz.

 

An Israeli investigative journalist also found that a majority of the women given these shots say they were administered without their knowledge or consent.

Health Ministry Director General Prof. Ron Gamzu acknowledged the practice -- without directly conceding coercion was involved -- in a letter to Israeli health maintenance organizations, instructing 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.”

Depo-Provera is a hormonal form of birth control that is injected every three months. More