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“The fear never goes away”: women's health in Iran

The Lancet (British edition), 2022-10, Vol.400 (10360), p.1292-1293 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2022 Elsevier Ltd ;2022. Elsevier Ltd ;ISSN: 0140-6736 ;EISSN: 1474-547X ;DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01979-1

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  • Title:
    “The fear never goes away”: women's health in Iran
  • Author: Devi, Sharmila
  • Subjects: Abortion ; Activists ; Adultery ; Amini, Mahsa ; Birth control ; Demonstrations & protests ; Domestic violence ; Family planning ; Fertility ; Human rights ; Incentives ; Marriage ; Mental health ; Nonresidents ; Population ; Shutdowns ; Think tanks ; Womens health ; Womens rights ; Young adults
  • Is Part Of: The Lancet (British edition), 2022-10, Vol.400 (10360), p.1292-1293
  • Description: [...]of how the regime pushes back, they can’t shut down the conversation that has started and which goes beyond the hijab, which is a visible symbol of women's second-class status.” Since the Islamic revolution of 1979, women have been increasingly confined within a legal and cultural framework focused on family and motherhood, with little freedom to choose how to live their lives. The severe restrictions impact not just women's reproductive and mental health, but all aspects of a woman's life, Roya Boroumand, Executive Director of the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran, based in the USA, told The Lancet. The population law criminalises abortion and individuals performing the procedure could face the death penalty, while state incentives to increase the fertility rate (eg, financial payments), would not be implemented quickly given the state of the economy hit by sanctions, Sussan Tahmasebi, Executive Director of FEMENA, a women's rights group, told The Lancet. Activists also worry that rates of intimate partner violence, which are often under-reported, are also rising, adding to the mental health burden of many Iranian women.
  • Publisher: London: Elsevier Ltd
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0140-6736
    EISSN: 1474-547X
    DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01979-1
  • Source: ProQuest One Psychology
    ProQuest Central
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