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Parwana* no longer recognises her own children. Once known for her beauty in her village in Kandahar province, the 36-year-old sits on the floor of her mother’s home, rocking silently. After nine pregnancies and six miscarriages, many under pressure from her husband and in-laws, Parwana has slipped into a permanent state of confusion.

“She is lost,” says her mother, Sharifa. “They broke her with fear, pregnancies and violence.”

Since the Taliban’s informal birth-control ban began spreading across Afghanistan in 2023, the country’s reproductive health system has gone into freefall. Contraceptives have disappeared, clinics have closed and complications are going untreated.

The ban was never formally announced, but by early 2023, doctors and midwives in multiple provinces reported the same pattern: supplies arriving late, then in smaller quantities and then not at all.

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[–] C4551E@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Coming soon to your own nation!

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

America already works like this for many women.

I really wish men would just shut the fuck up and let women take care of women's medical needs.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm a man. White, cis man with a very deep voice. I have a big, dark beard. You'd look at and listen to me and you'd think "he's straight". I am. My wife agrees with me on my statements.

I really wish men would just shut the fuck up

You can stop there. I 100% agree.

Did you know, that scientists tested tampons with menstrual blood for the first time in 2023? 2023 was 3 years ago. You want to know the result? IT DOES NOT ABSORB AS WELL AS WITH WATER, and is not suitable for what it's used for!

How in the actual fuck did they not test this with menstrual blood before? Because fucking men. God fucking dammit, I hate men.

Men, just shut the fuck up and let women take the steering wheel.

Ps: sorry for the rant, things like this just really fucking pisses me off.

[–] Nebraska_Huskers@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I am a man and I agree 100%

[–] hcf@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

This is especially fucked up when you factor in just how many excess birth defects/miscarriages occur in Afghanistan as a result of the environmental damage done by the US's use of depleted uranium munitions all over the country.

[–] Nebraska_Huskers@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I fucking hate this timeline.