Afghanistan’s Taliban Ban Medical Training for Women

This week the Taliban in Afghanistan closed one of the last remaining loopholes in their ban on education for older girls and women by forbidding them from attending institutions offering medical education. The Taliban have also banned women in some provinces from being treated by male medical professionals, which means that this new decree, halting the training of new female healthcare workers, will result in unnecessary pain, misery, sickness, and death for the women forced to go without health care, as there won’t be female healthcare workers to treat them. More here…

Comment: where are the Western feminine voices speaking up and acting out about the horrible treatment of their sisters under Islam? Why is there no outrage? Women power? Oh, I just remembered: its not about abortion so they will let it pass. My body, my choice and me first.