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"My Mother Crushed My Belly with a Stone": This Is What Abortion Is Like in Afghanistan

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Kabul, Afghanistan. When Bahara was four months pregnant, she went to a hospital in Kabul to beg for an abortion. "We can't do it," a doctor told her. "If anyone finds out, we'll all end up in jail." Abortion is illegal in Afghanistan and anyone who practices it or helps carry it out can be imprisoned. But Bahara was desperate. Her unemployed husband had ordered her to "find a solution": he didn't want a fifth daughter. "We can barely feed" the …
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Kabul, Afghanistan. When Bahara was four months pregnant, she went to a hospital in Kabul to beg for an abortion. "We can't do it," a doctor told her. "If anyone finds out, we'll all end up in jail." Abortion is illegal in Afghanistan and anyone who practices it or helps carry it out can be imprisoned. But Bahara was desperate. Her unemployed husband had ordered her to "find a solution": he didn't want a fifth daughter. "We can barely feed" the …

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udgtv broke the news in on Sunday, December 14, 2025.
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