Report: Iraq Violence Leading to Abortions, Drug Abuse Among Civilians

[sabra]

Source: ABC News Blotter

Pregnant Iraqi women who have been forced from their homes by worsening violence are obtaining illegal abortions because they are unable to get medical care for themselves and their unborn, according to a new report by a national humanitarian group.

A record number of Iraqis -- most of them women and children -- are fleeing their homes to escape the bloodshed of sectarian violence and anti-U.S. attacks, according to a new report by the Iraqi Red Crescent organization, the largest aid group operating in Iraq.

Health care is inadequate and difficult to access for those people, according to the IRC report.

"Pregnant women, infants and children are unable to get...required medical care," states the report, which was translated from Arabic, "and criminal abortion became (sic) the norms."

Rape, theft and drug addiction have also become "commonplace" among the displaced, who live in government buildings, at relatives' homes, tents, or squat in abandoned homes or makeshift huts on empty land, according to the report, which was first noted on the Iraq news site Iraqslogger.com.


Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/06/report_iraq_vio.html

[TrogL]

1. I thought Dubya was trying to prevent abortions

[youngdem]

2. Well, I'll be.....Iraq is indeed starting to look like America

I'm tearing up a little. Sounds like New Orleans.

[donsu]

3. all women on earth should hate the american neo cons

they are making life harder then it should be for women and children

may the neo cons fall and never get up