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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
But, as you said, 'nuff said on this subject.
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As if!!
Interesting take on abortion vs. having the kid in Egypt (not having to do with minors):
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The standard three-step program for any unmarried upper-class Egyptian girl who becomes pregnant is an abortion, an operation to refurbish her virginity with a new hymen and then marriage to the first unwitting suitor the family can snare.
But Hind el-Hinnawy, a vivacious 27-year-old costume designer, decided she was not going to playact her way through the virgin-marriage pageant. Instead she did the unthinkable here: she had the child and then filed a public paternity suit, igniting a major scandal and prompting a national debate over the clandestine marriage contracts that young couples are using to have sex in this conservative, religious society.
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"The whole society says: 'No! No! No! Don't say this.
It's shameful.
It's a scandal. Go have an abortion. This girl was not well raised.
She's loose,' " said Attiyat el-Abnoudi, a renowned Egyptian documentary maker . . .
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Interesting that NOT getting the abortion (and virginity-restoring operation) is loose.
Anyway, this was sent to me by a friend who was more interested in the "secret marriage" aspect b/c of her dissertation topic about the same kind of thing in medieval Italy. Uh, maybe it was a later period. I'm not so scholarly. Anyway. From NYT sometime this week.
