The Right to Choose - Ethiopia

November 2000
This Life programme opens with a bride in tears: she's only four years old. Another Ethiopian bride, Nibret, is 11, but she is just as traumatized by her wedding to a boy she has never met. And well she may be, since too-early pregnancy could easily cripple or kill her. That's the reality behind the right of women and girls to choice and reproductive health.

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[shasanni]

i dunno why the "leaders" here say islam allows this. islam doesn't allow forced marriage and polygamy is restricted to times of war. if women lose their husbands and have no means to provide for themselves, then polygamy was permitted. what they r saying here is pure bullshit. i guess it is a cultural outlook that somehow found itself in their "religion". i guess the leaders don't know how to read

[etiosoul]

what the fuck would a 4 year old know they should kill those who are arrenging her wedding

[msayofemi1]

@shasanni and christianity

[msayofemi1]

@shasanni ethiopias main religion isint islam lol tis ethiopian orthodox

[zxa105]

A bunch of baby girl rapists...this is totally wrong on every level. This nothing but to satisfy man's needs and wants. Forget 4 - 10 yr olds, even 15 should never be allowed.

[33tolu1]

what kind of religion is islam? why does it encourage such horrible practices? thank God i am a christian.

[lndnbt]

4yrs old??? Wtf is wrong with people. And I'm thinking 20 is too young...There is no hope for humanity, it's downhill from here.

[Yahcna]

These women are so beautiful..I wish I could help

[Afrodite700]

its all about the man isn't it? what about the women and their needs, this is how diseases spread around

[EgbesuJuju2010]

@proudfemale What made you think I am Muslim. Any way it is not about religion it is about people, not every Muslim does this, like not every Xtian priest rapes young boys( maybe I am wrong about that) It is the problem of ignorance, people follow religious leaders too much. You curse others religions but if Islam and Allah is mythical so is Xtianity & Jesus as they are related. PS why are you so crude! I guess some have no home training, and stop making assumptions about things you do not know

[proudfemale]

@EgbesuJuju2010 purleeze...the REASON this filth goes on, children are denied childhoods, is BECAUSE of your dirty prick mohammed

he was a pedophile/rapist...he married a tiny 6yo who couldnt possibly give INFORMED consent, but he INSISTED saying your sicko mythical allah decreed it, and he bonked her whilst she was still a prepubscent CHILD at 8yrs 9mths

prior to that he got an erect dick to THIGH this little girl..then had her wash the semen off his clothes

and this is islam

[buttercup5773]

Shut up your'e a pervert and child molester. my God, that's a sin. allow children to be children, raping young girls. marriage should be between consenting adults.

In America, they would be in jail. what a sin. God bless her for trying to help these young girls. This is a disgrace!!!!!!!!!!!!!