Israeli Ethiopian Birth Control To Be Examined

Israel’s health ministry is to investigate

why contraceptive injections were widely given to Ethiopian immigrant women.

A new committee will look into allegations that this was done

in a deliberate attempt to reduce births in the Ethiopian Israeli community.

In December,

an Israeli TV documentary produced evidence about the use of a drug called Depo-Provera.

It suggested immigrants were given shots without their full consent.

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